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Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
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Literary Criticism
Farrell, John P. "A Message For Miss Eyre; or, Jane in Wonderland," Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens:Revue du Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Victoriennes et Edouardiennes de Université Paul-Valéry, 8 (1979) 1-9
Gilbert, Sandra M. Jane Eyre and the secrets of furious lovemaking, in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Summer 1998
Giles, Judy. A substantial introduction to Charlotte Brontë from the Literary Encyclopedia. On Jane Eyre (1847); Shirley (1849); Villette (1853)
Hilton, Nelson. A Freudian discussion of Charlotte Brontë from Lexis Complexes
Hoeveler, Diane Long. "Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern Show in Villette." In Gothic Technologies, special Romantic Circles edition, Dec. 2005
Kreilkamp, Ivan. Unuttered: Withheld speech and female authorship in Jane Eyre and Villette, in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Summer 1999
Nandrea, Lorri G. Desiring Difference: Sympathy and Sensibility in Jane Eyre, in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2003
Nockolds, Peter. "Silent Silvery Star": The planet Venus in the writings of the Brontës, at Victorian Studies Web
Renfro, Alicia. Defining Romanticism: The Implications of Nature Personified as Female in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Article contends that both Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë use Nature, envisioned as female, as a means to redefine the masculine prototype of Romanticism
Shuttleworth, Sally. Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology. Publisher's blurb from Cambridge Univ. Press
Starzyk, Lawrence J. "The gallery of memory": The pictoral in Jane Eyre in Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1997
Sutherland, John. A review of two books by John Sutherland. Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Literature / Can Jane Eyre be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction, in Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2000
Diedrick, J. Professor Diedrick traces connections between Charlotte Brontë's feminism in Jane Eyre and the tradition of feminist discourse that originated fifty five years before Jane Eyre appeared, when Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) (taken offline)
Miller, Lucasta. Bio-madness. A review of Lucasta Miller's The Brontë Myth in the New Statesman, Jan 29, 2001 reviewed by Patricia Duncker (taken offline)
Vanskike, Elliott. Consistent Inconsistencies: The Transvestite Actress Madame Vestris and Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, in Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 50, Issue 4, March 1996 (taken offline from www.ucpress.edu)
Postcolonial Jane Eyre
Buchan, Jon. "'Jane's all White' An Examination of Victorian Chromatic Anxiety in Brontė's Jane Eyre." Graduate student paper contends that Jane Eyre demonstrates Charlotte Brontë's white English anxieties about race, empire and chromatic difference. Web published 5/8/2001
A web site examines Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and Jean Rhys's "rewriting" of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea as a form of resistance to the colonial project. Site is a project of MA students at Queen's University, Belfast
Lewis, Liz. "Charlotte Brontë and Jean Rhys: The representation of the doubleness of selfhood in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." An introductory essay on the authors from the London School of Journalism English Literature Distance Learning Course
Murdoch, H Adlai. Ghosts in the mirror: Colonialism and Creole indeterminacy in Brontë and Sand, on the notion of the Creole in George Sand's Indiana and Jane Eyre. In College Literature, Winter 2002
Simmons, Diane. Jamaica Kincaid and the Canon: In Dialogue With "Paradise Lost" and "Jane Eyre." In MELUS, Summer, 1998
Kendrick, Robert. Edward Rochester and the margins of masculinity in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea. In Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 1994
Introduction & Biography
Oates, Joyce Carol. Exteemed novelist Joyce Carol Oates on Jane Eyre, from Salon Magazine
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Complete text of The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell (1857)
The Victorian Web has essays on Charlotte Brontë's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian cultural and historical context. From Professor George Landow
Haworth, Home of the Brontës, short article for the tourist, by Judith Fein
Some older criticism, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21). The Brontes
Brontë Newsletters U.S. Brontë Society - Region 3. More chatty than scholarly, but many of the contributors have a serious interest in the Brontës (taken offline)
Roberts, Michele. How eating becomes a metaphor in the novels of Charlotte Brontë, in the New Statesman, May 5, 2003 (taken offline)
A collection of articles on Charlotte Brontë from the Times of London, including several on her recently discovered novella Stancliffe's Hotel (moved or removed)
Film Versions
Alleva, Richard. Jane Eyre. - movie reviews. On the Franco Zeffirelli film version of Jane Eyre, in Commonweal, June 1, 1996
Barbour, David. An Eyre of mystery; broadway's Jane Eyre features a groundbreaking scenic and lighting design On the Broadway musical version of Jane Eyre, in Entertainment Design, May, 2001 (taken offline)
Campbell, Gardner. The presence of Orson Welles in Robert Stevenson's Jane Eyre (1944), on the 1944 film version of Jane Eyre, in Literature Film Quarterly, 2003 (taken offline)
Bibliography & Web Sites
A Secondary Bibliography for Charlotte Brontë, by Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt
The Brontës: Texts, Sources, and Criticism, includes 14 early (1840s) reviews of the Brontës. By Peter Friesen, SUNY Plattsburgh
"Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell Univ., contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions
A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities [Feminist and Women's Studies]
Web site for Women's Writing, an international scholarly journal focusing on women's writing up to the end of the long nineteenth century. A sample copy is available for viewing, requires registration
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