“Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!”: Translating Violence and 'Yorkshire Roughness' in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley
(2018)
Journal Article
Franklin, S. (2018). “Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!”: Translating Violence and 'Yorkshire Roughness' in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley. Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society, 44(1), 43-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2019.1525875
By taking Yorkshire Luddism as Shirley’s (1849) framework, Charlotte Brontë places political violence at the centre of its narrative. Despite this, much of the novel’s inclusions of violence are largely undescribed and even unwitnessed, often displac... Read More about “Ay, ay, divil, all’s raight! We’ve smashed ’em!”: Translating Violence and 'Yorkshire Roughness' in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley.