Daisy Coombs (JCR), ‘Foreignness in the works of Charlote Brontë’
The idea of foreignness is central to Charlotte Brontë’s writing, imagination and education — but being foreign in Brontë’s world is no certain thing. This paper explores how Brontë and her characters are made foreign, not only by nationality and language, but also by gender and class. Social alienation hinders their creative potential, and imposed limitations have drastic consequences for the imagined world which Brontë’s protagonists inhabit, where weather, space and the act of travel become themselves reflective of a complicated foreignness.
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