Paths of Education in the Novels of Anne Brontë

The thesis is centred on the theme of education within the two novels by Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. First I examine how the texts function as Bildungsromans by taking a look at the three narrators' arc of character development. The second chapter explores what kind of education is received in the middle-class family circle, as well as the ways it effects children. The third and final chapter portrays how both men and women are incapable to establish their domestic happiness due to their insufficient moral education, while pointing out how Brontë provides a solution to this social condition via the establishment of empathy and communication between the sexes.MSc/MAAnglisztikaB