The Brontë Sisters

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

 

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Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)

ALEXANDER, Christine. “‘That Kingdom of Gloom’: Charlotte Brontë, the Annuals, and the Gothic.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 47 (1993): 409-38.

ANDERSON, Victoria. “Investigating the Third Story: ‘Bluebeard’ and ‘Cinderella’ in Jane Eyre” (111-121). In Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature, ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

BAER, Surella. “The Gothic Garden: Jane Eyre to    Rebecca.” Master’s Thesis, Queens College, New York, 1998.

BARBOUR, David. “Moonlight and Madness.” Lighting Dimensions 25:3 (2000): 36.

BAZIN, Claire. La Vision du mal chez les soeurs Brontë. Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 1995. [The Vision of Evil in the Work of the Brontë Sisters].

BAZIN, Claire. “Le nouveau gothique de Charlotte Brontë” (pp. 63-87). In Une Littérature de l’inquiétude. Paris: l’Harmattan and Aix-Marseille, Université de Provence, Annales du Monde Anglophone 8 (1998). [The New Gothic of Charlotte Brontë].

BERTRANDIAS. Bernadette. "Refigure le gothique: Les Textes hantes de Charlotte Brontë." Ideologies dans le Monde Anglo-Saxon 12 (2001): 101-16.

BRITTON, Terry D. “From Ambivalence to Acquiescence: Studies in Gothic Metaphor.” [GGI: 1102].

BUSHNELL, Nelson S. “Artistic Economy in Jane Eyre: A Contrast with The Old Manor House.” [GGI: 11-15].

CROSBY, Christina. “Charlotte Brontë’s Haunted Text.” [GGII: 0647].

DICKERSON, Vanessa. “Spells and Dreams, Hollows and Moors: Supernaturalism in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights” (pp. 48-79). In Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1996.

DUNN, Richard J. “The Natural Heart: Jane Eyre’s Romanticism.” [GGII: 0648].

GRIESINGER, Emily A. “Before and After ‘Jane Eyre’: The Female Gothic and Some Modern Views.” [GGII: 0650].

HEILMAN, R.B. “Charlotte Brontë’s ‘New Gothic.” In Victorian Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism. [GGI: 1116].

HELLER, Tamar. “Jane Eyre, Bertha, and the Female Gothic” (pp. 49-55). In Approaches to Teaching Brontë’s Jane Eyre, eds. Diane Hoeveler, Beth Lau. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993.

HOEVELER, Diane Long. “Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern Show in Vilette.” “Gothic Technologies: Visuality in the Romantic Era.” Romantic Circles Praxis Series (December 2005): www.rc.umd/praxis/gothic/abstracts.html

HOMANS, Margaret. “Dreaming of Children: Literalization in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.” In The Female Gothic. [GGII: 0652].

JOHNSON, E.D.H. “‘Daring the Dread Glance’: Charlotte Brontë’s Treatment of the Supernatural in Villette.” [GGI: 1118].

JUSTUS, James. “Wuthering Heights and an American Tradition.” [GGI: 1322].

NUNGESSER, Verena-Susanna. “From Thornfield Hall to Manderley and Beyond: Jane Eyre and Rebecca as Transformations of The Fairy Tale, the Novel of Development, and the Gothic Novel (209-226). In A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre, eds. Margarete Rubik, Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2007. [GGIV: 0000].

REANEY, James. “The Brontës: Gothic Transgressor as Cattle Drover.” In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/ Transgression. [GGII: 0655].

RILEY, Michael. “Gothic Melodrama and Spiritual Romance: Vision and Fidelity in Two Versions of Jane Eyre.” [GGI: 1120].

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

SOYA, Michiko. "Villette: Gothic Literature and the Homely Web of Truth." Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society 28:1 (2003): 15-24.

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

TOFANNELLI, John. “The Gothic Confessional: Language and Subjectivity in the Gothic Novel, Villette and Bleak House.” [GGII: 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].

UNSIGNED. Aspects of Jane Eyre. London: BBC Educational Publishing, 1998. 

WEIN, Toni. “Gothic Desire in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39 (19-99): 733-46.

WINSOR, Dorothy A. “The Continuity of the Gothic: The Gothic Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Iris Murdoch.” [GGI: 1122].

YOUNG, Arlene. “The Monster Within: The Alien Self in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein.” [GGII: 0657].

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

BAZIN, Claire. “Les Reves d’angoisse dans Wuthering Heights” (249-60). In Clermont Ferrand: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de Clermont, ed. Christian La Cassagnere. Clermont Ferrand: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université Blaise Pascal, 1989.

BLACKFORD, Holly. “Mrs. Darling's Scream: The Rites of Persephone in Peter and Wendy and Wuthering Heights." Studies in the Humanities 32 (2005): 116-44.

CONGER, Syndy M. “The Reconstruction of the Gothic Feminine Ideal in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.” In The Female Gothic. [GGII: 0646].


COTTOM, Daniel. "I Think; Therefore, I am Heathcliff." ELH 70:4 (2003): 1067-88.

FENTON, Edith M. “The Spirit of Wuthering Heights as Distinguished from that of Gothic Romance.” [GGI: 1103].

HAGGERTY, George. “The Gothic Form of Wuther-ing Heights.” [GGII: 0651].

HELLER, Tamar. “Haunted Bodies: The Female Gothic of Wuthering Heights” (67-74). In Approaches to Teaching Emily Bronte, eds.Terri A. Hasseler. Sue Lonoff. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2005.

IMLAY, Elizabeth. “The Brontës” (pp. 27-30).  In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

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

LOE, Thomas Benjamin. “The Gothic Strain in the Victorian Novel: Four Studies.” [GGI: 1106].

MAGIE, Lynne A. “The Dæmon Eros: Gothic Elements in the Novels of Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Doris Lessing, and Iris Murdoch.” [GGII: 0653].

MITCHELL, Giles. “Incest, Demonism, and Death in Wuthering Heights.” [GGI: 1107].

MOERS, Ellen. “Female Gothic: Monsters, Goblins, Freaks.” [GGI: 1108].

PATTERSON, Charles I. Jr. “Empathy and the Dæmonic in Wuthering Heights.” In The English Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Essays on Literary Mediation of Human Values. [GGI: 1109].

POOLE, Meredith June. “The Brontës and Victorian Gothic.” [GGII: 0654].

PYKETT, Lyn. “Gender and Genre in Wuthering Heights: Gothic Plot and Domestic Fiction” (pp. 86-99). In Wuthering Heights, New Casebooks, ed. Patsy Stoneman. London: Macmillan, 1993.

SLATTERY, Eugene E.M. “The Brontës: Refined Gothic.” [GGI: 1111].

THUR, Robert. “Longing for Union: The Doppel-gänger in Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein.” [GGI: 22-97].

TWITCHELL, James. “Heathcliff as Vampire.” Southern Humanities Review 11 (1971): 355-62.

VITTE, Paulette. "Emily Bronte. Rimbaud. Poe and the Gothic." Bronte Society Transactions 24 (1999): 182-85.

 Anne Brontë (1820-1849)

GORDON, Jan B. “Gossip, Diary, Letter, Text: Anne Brontë’s Narrative Tenant and the Problematic of the Gothic Sequel.” [GGII: 0649].