‘Don’t forget this is how I earn my living’: Internal Focalization, Subjectivity and the Victorian Woman Artist in the Adaptation of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (BBC Miniseries, 1996)
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This article is an analysis of the TV adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which focuses on how the audio-visual language is used to convey the story through the perspective of the protagonist(s). One essential aspect of the discussion is the way focalization is achieved in both media, and in particular, how Helen Graham’s circumstances as a professional woman artist are a key feature of her characterization. Therefore, the analysis also brings in contextual information about Victorian women artists in history and in literature, as well as some details concerning the Brontës’ own artistic practice. In the course of the article some of the programme’s more relevant characteristics are shown to be a consequence of its status as a revisiting/revision of the original work from a present-day perspective and within the cinematic trend of post-heritage film.
Source: Brontë Studies
Author: Carmen Pérez Ríu
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1987593041