The Woman Artist in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Widfell Hall: gender modulations of literary form

• Grant number: 25/01078-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2025
• End date: May 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass
• Grantee: Larissa Corrêa de Siqueira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project is invested in analysing the woman artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), by Anne Brontë, as a character confronted with the conflicting claims of professionalization and patriarchy. We intend to discuss how Helen Graham, the novel's protagonist, simultaneously adhere and flout Victorian expectations on femininity, whilst expanding and subverting nineteenth-century conventions and possibilities of Künstlerromaner (artist novels).