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TY - CHAP
T1 - “The impatient anticipations of our reason”
T2 - Rough Sympathy in Friedrich Schiller and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
AU - Carruthers, J.
PY - 2020/1/31
Y1 - 2020/1/31
N2 - This chapter argues for Friedrich Schiller’s influence on the aesthetic logic of Charlotte’s Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane’s development across the novel is traced through her learning of an attitude of patient anticipation towards her vital, vibrant world, most poignantly expressed in her appreciation of the rough Rochester. Schiller’s aesthetic theory celebrates the “Naturmenschen” as the natural man, responsive to the world and characterised by the quality of the “rohen” (raw or rough) as the privileged aesthetic of receptive sympathy. The rough, unfinished object in the world forestalls reason’s controlling impulse to impose order, demanding instead a patient response. Schiller’s and Brontë’s depictions of the educative powers of nature as vital to inter-human relationships reveal the importance of matter to the emotional life of humans.
AB - This chapter argues for Friedrich Schiller’s influence on the aesthetic logic of Charlotte’s Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Jane’s development across the novel is traced through her learning of an attitude of patient anticipation towards her vital, vibrant world, most poignantly expressed in her appreciation of the rough Rochester. Schiller’s aesthetic theory celebrates the “Naturmenschen” as the natural man, responsive to the world and characterised by the quality of the “rohen” (raw or rough) as the privileged aesthetic of receptive sympathy. The rough, unfinished object in the world forestalls reason’s controlling impulse to impose order, demanding instead a patient response. Schiller’s and Brontë’s depictions of the educative powers of nature as vital to inter-human relationships reveal the importance of matter to the emotional life of humans.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-29817-3_6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030298166
SP - 97
EP - 112
BT - Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930
A2 - Carruthers, Jo
A2 - Dakkak, Nour
A2 - Spence, Rebecca
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -