"Whose Injury Is Like Mine?" Emily Brontë, George Eliot, and the Sincere Postures of Suffering Men

• Published in: Novel : a forum on fiction Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 271 - 293
• Main Author: Morrison, Kevin A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Providence Duke University Press 01.06.2010; Duke University Press, NC & IL
• Subjects: Bourgeois; British & Irish literature; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Capitalism; Critical Theory; Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880); Emotional distress; English literature; Fantasy fiction; Ideology; Literary Criticism; Literary Theory; Literature and Literary Studies; Love; Males; Masculinity; Men; Novels; Subjectivity; Sympathy; Theory and Philosophy; Victorians; Violence; Women

This article examines representations of gestural and rhetorical modes of male suffering in Emily Brontë's and George Eliot's . It argues that these novels, focusing on the transition from a traditional yeoman economy to a system of capitalist property ownership, present male suffering as...