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Spatial and Mental landscapes: Constructing Identity in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Gaskell’s North and South

Author(s) Ms. Barsha Paul
Country India
Abstract In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855), landscapes are dynamic forces that shape and deconstruct identity rather than passive settings. This paper examines how the moors of Yorkshire and industrial landscapes resemble the geographical isolation as explored through the works of Homi. K Bhabha, in a way drawing attention to mental trauma to frame characters' identities and relationships, which can be understood through the lens of Cathy Caruth. The psychoanalytical perspective can be achieved through the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan that attempts to explore the realm of the mental landscapes in both novels by delving into the characters’ lives and understanding of the social contexts. The interplay of the spatial landscapes on the mental landscapes shaped by the individual’s traumas that is responsible in shaping the identities of the characters is explored through the lens of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s works on intersectionality. These geographies become not only reflective of mental trauma and physical displacement but also instrumental in reshaping character identity across intersecting lines of class, race, and gender. By positioning landscape as an active force rather than a passive backdrop, this paper demonstrates how both novels employ landscape as a narrative and symbolic device to explore the fluidity of identity and the complex entanglement of the psyche with societal structures.
Keywords Landscapes, Identity, Mental Trauma, Intersectionality, Geographical Isolation
Field Arts
Published In Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-02-19
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