%0 Journal Article 
%A González Calvo, Felicitas María
%T The earthly pleasures and the joys of heaven : a comparative analysis of the influence of religion in Mary Wollstonecraft’s "The wrongs of woman" and  Anne Brontë’s "The tenant of Wildfell Hall"
%D 2021
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50155
%X Religion is a central theme in both The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft and 
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë. The two novels, although seemingly 
unconnected, share a strikingly similar plot and moralist intent, but they differ in their 
portrayal of religion and in their treatment of legal and moral issues related to women. 
This study analyses how religion affects the way both novels address concerns about 
women’s intellectual, moral, and legal autonomy, and in the solutions they propose. First, 
it addresses the religious context and events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in 
England, and the way this context influenced Wollstonecraft and Brontë’s conception of 
religion. Then, it analyses how religion is portrayed in both novels, how it affects the 
treatment of marriage and divorce laws, and how the moral progression of the characters 
is depicted. Lastly, it examines the critical response to both works at the time of their 
publication, and how the religious and moral elements were perceived by the critics.

%K The Wrongs of Woman
%K The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
%K Religion
%K Divorce
%K Women’s autonomy
%K Religión
%K Divorcio
%K Autonomía femenina
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Filología
%K Philology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala