The Brontë Sisters

Charlotte (1816-1855), Emily (1818-1848), Anne (1820-1849)

 

Internet Resources: Cecilia Falk's Brontë Pages

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Charlotte Brontë

ALEXANDER, Christine. " ' That Kingdom of Gloom ': Charlotte Brontë, the Annuals, and the Gothic." Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (1993): 409-438. Traces the pronounced influence of such annuals as The Keepsake, The Gem, The Amulet, and most especially, The Literary Souvenir, and Friendship’s Offering on Charlotte Brontë’s juvenalia. “From the annuals, Brontë learned not only to imitatebut to parody the Gothic form: her early writings show that the Gothic allowed her to indulge in the exotic, the licentious, and mysterious while at the same time assuming that anti-Gothic stance that is so characteristic in her novels.”

BAER, Surella."The Gothic Garden: Jane Eyre to Rebecca." Master's Thesis, Queens College, NY, 1998.

BARBOUR, David. "Moonlight & Madness." Lighting Dimensions 25:3 (2000): 36. Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre offers Gothic romance and an innovative design.

BAZIN, Claire. "Le nouveau gothique de Charlotte Brontë" In Une Littérature de l'inquiétude. Paris: l'Harmattan & Aix-Marseille, Université de Provence, Annales du Monde Anglophone 8 (1998): [data [The new Gothic of Charlotte Brontë]

BUSHNELL, Nelson S. "Artistic Economy in Jane Eyre: A Contrast with The Old Manor House." 1115

CROSBY, Christina. "Charlotte Brontë's Haunted Text." 0647

DERWIN, Susan. " ' That Kingdom of Gloom ': Charlotte Brontë, the Annuals, and the Gothic." 0648

GRIESINGER, Emily A. "Before and After ' Jane Eyre ': The Female Gothic and Some Modern Views." 0650

HEILMAN, R. B. "Charlotte Brontë's ' New Gothic ' " In Victorian Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism. 1116

HELLER, Tamar. "Jane Eyre, Bertha, and the Female Gothic" In Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre, Eds. Diane Hoeveler, Beth Lau. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993: 49-55.

HOMANS, Margaret. "Dreaming of Children: Literalization in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights" In The Female Gothic. 0652

IMLAY, Elizabeth. "The Brontës: Anne Brontë (1820-1849), Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), Emily Brontë (1818-1848)" In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 27-30.

JOHNSON, E. D. H. " ' Daring the Dread Glance ': Charlotte Brontë's Treatment of the Supernatural in Villette." 1118

JUSTUS, James. "Wuthering Heights and an American Tradition." 1322

REANEY, James. "The Brontës: Gothic Transgressor as Cattle Drover" In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/ Transgression. 0655

RILEY, Michael. "Gothic Melodrama and Spiritual Romance: Vision and Fidelity in Two Versions of Jane Eyre." 1120

SCHONBERGER-SCHLEICHER, Esther. Charlotte and Emily Brontë: A Narrative Analysis of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Berne, Frankfort: Peter Lang, 1999.

SZABO, Victoria E. "The Dangers and Delights of Gothic Sensibility." Honors Thesis, Williams College, 1990. On Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

THOMSON, Douglass H. "Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 69-75.

TOFANNELLI, John. "The Gothic Confessional: Language and Subjectivity in the Gothic Novel, Villette and Bleak House." 0656

TOURNEBIZE, Cassilde. "Complexité et ambivalence de l'space ' gothique ' dans Jane Eyre." Caliban 33 (1996): 29-42. [Complexity and ambivalence of Gothic space in Jane Eyre

WEIN, Toni. "Gothic Desire in Charlotte Brontë's Villette." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39:4 (1999): 733-746. Considers the significance of Lewis's The Monk for Charlotte Bronte's Villette. Villette redefines sublimal desire by drawing on The Monk for its analysis of substitution's dangers and delights and attacks a practice which makes women counters in a system of barter. Brontë makes the spectral nun stand for a desire that has become disembodied and endlessly deferred.

WINSOR, Dorothy A. "The Continuity of the Gothic: The Gothic Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Iris Murdoch." 1122

YOUNG, Arlene. "The Monster Within: The Alien Self in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein." 0657

UNSIGNED. ASPECTS of Jane Eyre. London: BBC Educational Publishing, 1998. A 71 minute videocassette narrated by Libby Fawbert. Covers the background of Charlotte Brontë, education, religion, Jane Eyre as a Gothic novel, feminist approaches to the characters of Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester and romantic love. Includes clips from three BBC dramatizations of Jane Eyre and reading of selected passages by Miriam Margolyes.

 

Emily Brontë

BRITTON, Terry D. "From Ambivalence to Acquiescence: Studies in Gothic Metaphor." 1102

CONGER, Syndy M. "The Reconstruction of the Gothic Feminine Ideal in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights" In The Female Gothic. 0646

FENTON, Edith M. "The Spirit of Wuthering Heights as Distinguished from that of Gothic Romance." 1103

HAGGERTY, George. "The Gothic Form of Wuthering Heights." 0651

JUSTUS, James. "Beyond Gothicism: Wuthering Heights and an American Tradition." 1322

LANONE, Catherine. "Wuthering Heights ou le labyrinthe de l'obsession." Caliban 33 (1996): 73-82. [Wuthering Heights or the labyrinth of obsession

MAGIE, Lynne A. "The Daemon Eros: Gothic Elements in the Novels of Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Doris Lessing, and Iris Murdoch." 0653

MITCHELL, Giles. "Incest, Demonism, and Death in Wuthering Heights." 1107

MOERS, Ellen. "Female Gothic: Monsters, Goblins, Freaks." 1108

PATTERSON, Charles I. Jr. "Empathy and the Daemonic in Wuthering Heights" In The English Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Essays on Literary Mediation of Human Values. 1109

POOLE, Meredith June. "The Brontës and Victorian Gothic." 0654

SLATTERY, Eugene E. M. "The Brontës: Refined Gothic." 1111

THUR, Robert. "Longing for Union: The Doppelgänger in Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein." 2297

 

 Anne Brontë

GORDON, Jan B. "Gossip, Diary, Letter, Text: Anne Brontë's Narrative Tenant and the Problematic of the Gothic Sequel." 0649