Bronte's Journey to the East: The Romantic Quest in Her Fiction
Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1982
The thesis tackles Charlotte Bronte's deep interest in the East as reflected in her four major novels, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette. Starting with her Juvenilia, the thesis traces the interest to its earliest roots and finds that it survives till the end of Bronte's career. However, the early fascination with the East takes a different form at mid career under the influence of Bronte's growing awareness of the victorian cultural values.
Marmaduke Pickthall is a British novelist who converted to Islam, translated the Quran and wrote profusely about the Arab world. He had an early warm reception in the literary circles of his time…
The thesis tackles Charlotte Bronte's deep interest in the East as reflected in her four major novels, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette. Starting…