Wuthering Heights: Brontë’s Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
This essay views Lockwood’s first dream in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, in which “the famous Jabes Branderham preach[es] from the text,” as a “slice” of Methodist history. Enlisting E.P. Thompson’s suggestion that Jabes Branderham is modeled after Methodist Jabez Bunting, I argue that Brontë’s presen...
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| 格式: | 電子 Article |
| 語言: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2020, 卷: 24, 發布: 1/2, Pages: 65-83 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brontë, Emily 1818-1848, Wuthering heights
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KDG Free church |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodism
B Wesleyanism B Enlightenment B 紳士 B 宗教 B Class B Christianity B Servant |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
| 總結: | This essay views Lockwood’s first dream in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, in which “the famous Jabes Branderham preach[es] from the text,” as a “slice” of Methodist history. Enlisting E.P. Thompson’s suggestion that Jabes Branderham is modeled after Methodist Jabez Bunting, I argue that Brontë’s presentation of Methodism in the dream contains valuable socio-economic information. As an aspiring member of the gentry, Lockwood fears the subversive potential of Methodism and resents Branderham’s preaching of it and Joseph’s observance of it. I argue further that Brontë uses Methodism as a tool in her characterization of Lockwood and Joseph. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02401013 |
