Women's Empowerment and Its Subversions in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

• 作者: 梁嘉铭
• 来源期刊: 海外英语（下）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: 中外文学文化研究
• 页码范围: 207-209,233
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: I106
• 语种: 中文

摘要

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, firstly published in 1848, was the second and final novel of Anne Bront?, the youngest of the Bront? sisters, telling a story of the mysterious young widow Helen Huntingdon, who flees her abusive husband and hides with her son at Wildfell Hall. Just as most contemporary critic defines it as one of the first feminist novels, the overall characterization of Helen sends a strong message of the empowerment of women. What confuses modern readers, however, is the subtle confrontation between the empowerment and its subversion. Thus, this paper conducts an in-depth analysis of the text concerning Anne's empow?erment of Helen and the corresponding subversion of the established empowerment before unveiling the fundamental cause of such arrangement with a view of shedding light on the comprehension of Anne Bront?'s belief in universal social issues.