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Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

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Literary Criticism

Barnard, Robert. Emily Brontë, (2000) Publisher's blurb from Oxford Univ. Press.

Berry, Laura. "Acts of custody in incarceration in Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1996

Crick, Brian. "Charlotte Brontë: Her Sister's Interpreter: Reading Oppositely or Literary Criticism as Special Pleading." Crick notes that Charlotte Brontë's prefatory comments to her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights "have virtually infiltrated the work to become an intimate part of the text itself." Adding "For me these two brief essays are a long-standing source of irritation which even the accepted conventions for publishing academic articles do not warrant disguising." The New Compass: A Critical Review 2 (December 2003)

Farrell, John P. "The Reader's Role in Wuthering Heights." Lecture notes from Professor Farrell

Farrell, John P. "Wuthering Heights Dreams," revised version of "Reading the Text of Community in Wuthering Heights," ELH 56 (1989), 173-208

Gezari, Janet.  Publisher's site for Last Things: Emily Brontë's Poems (Oxford, 2007). Chapter contents: Last Things, Fathoming 'Remembrance', Outcomes and Endings, Fragments, The First Last Thing, Posthumous Bronte

Peeck-O'Toole, Maureen. "Remembrance" and "Stars," in Aspects of Lyric in the Poetry of Emily Brontë (Rodopi, 1988). Preview at Google Books.

Vine, Steven. A substantial introduction to Emily Brontë from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/7/01. On Wuthering Heights

Introduction

The Victorian Web has essays on Emily Brontë's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background. From Dr. George Landow

Emily Brontë notes on the 19th century novel Covers: Publication of Wuthering Heights, Critical responses, Film Versions, Themes, The Narrator, Wuthering Heights as Socio-Economic Novel, Psychological Interpretations, Religion, Metaphysics, Mysticism, The Gothic, Romanticism, Love, "I am Heathcliff", Sex, Emily Brontë's Poetry. Lilia Melani, City Univ. of NY

Some older criticism of Emily Brontë from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)

Adams, Maureen B. Emily Brontë and Dogs, in Society & Animals Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2000)

Bibliography & Web Sites

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

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

A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies

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