Catalina hat geschrieben:
Stimmt es das Bronte Austen dies bezüglich sehr negativ beurteilt hat?
Hallo Catalina.
das stimmt, aber es war nur Charlotte Bronte von der ein böswilliges JA-Zitat überliefert wird... Leider sind die Ashton-Dennis-Seiten wohl vom Netz gegangen, sonst würde ich hier den Link dahin posten... Aber schau mal hier nach:
Jane Eyre und Fanny Price - da sind ein paar der Zitate mit drin...
Und hier sind noch die englischen Bronte-Zitate über Jane Austen (Kopie aus Ashton Dennis' Website, ich hab die süffisanten Bemerkungen A.D. gleich drin gelassen...
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was one-year old when Jane Austen died. Charlotte Brontë is such a great favorite to so many that I simply had to include her thoughts on Jane Austen. The literary critic G.H. Lewes (1817-1878) admired Jane Eyre and said so in print, but he may have admired Jane Austen's novels even more because he compared her to Goethe, Fielding, and Cervantes and then with Shakespeare and Molière. Charlotte wrote to express her gratitude for his kindness to herself, but couldn't let it stand there and began to express her views on Jane Austen of whom she had never before heard.
"Why do you like Jane Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. ... I had not seen Pride and Prejudice till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? ...a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. ... These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk."
"Now I can understand admiration of George Sand ... she had a grasp of mind which, if I cannot fully comprehend, I can very deeply respect: she is sagacious and profound; Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant." (Charlotte Brontë, January 12, 1848 [South-68])
I see that Charlotte Brontë could not fully comprehend what was sagacious and profound. That is what she said, is it not? Charlotte invited a reply and received it; unhappily, it no longer exists and so we can only infer Lewes's thoughts from what Charlotte said in her next letter.
"What a strange lecture comes in your letter! You say I must familiarize my mind with the fact that that 'Miss Austen is not a poetess, has no "sentiment" ... no eloquence, none of the ravishing enthusiasm of poetry'; and then you add, I must 'learn to acknowledge her as one of the great artists, of the greatest painters of human character, and one of the writers with the nicest sense of means to an end that ever lived.' "
"That last point only will I ever acknowledge."
"Can there be a great artist without poetry? ... But by 'poetry', I am sure you understand something different to what I do, as you do by 'sentiment'. ... I submit to your anger, which I have now excited (for have I not questioned the perfection of your darling?); the storm may pass over me. ..." (Charlotte Brontë, January 18, 1848 [South-68])
Not if I can help it.
The next excerpt is from a letter to W.S. Williams, the publisher's reader who was so instrumental in the publication of Jane Eyre. Unhappily, Charlotte found another Austen-lover in her correspondence and felt she had to deal with that.
"I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works Emma—read it with interest and with just the right degree of admiration which the Miss Austen herself would have thought sensible and suitable—anything like warmth or enthusiasm; anything energetic, poignant, heartfelt, is utterly out of place in commending these works: all such demonstration the authoress would have met with a well-bred sneer, would have calmly scorned as outre and extravagant. She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously well; there is a Chinese fidelity, a miniature delicacy in the painting: she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her; she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy Sisterhood; even to the Feelings she vouchsafes no more than an occasional graceful but distant recognition; too frequent converse with them would ruffle the smooth elegance of her progress. ... Jane Austen was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete, and rather insensible (not senseless) woman, if this is heresy—I cannot help it. If I said it to some people (Lewes for example) they would accuse me of advocating exaggerated heroics, but I am not afraid of your falling into any such vulgar error." (Charlotte Brontë, April 12, 1850 [South-68])
Blast!—I have fallen into that "vulgar" category again.
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Viel Spaß damit...
Bruki
PS: Im alten Board gibt es zu dem Thema schon einen ganzen Thread... Leider ist das alte Board teilweise zerstört... Ich sitze aber z.Z. an der Erstellung eines Archives mit den alten Postings... Wahrscheinlich nächstes WE bin ich damit soweit, dass es gehostet werden kann... Dann kannst Du auch wiueder an diue alten Postings rankommen...