Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2074134
A. M. Adams
This is an appreciation of the untiring contributions made to Brontë Studies by six members of the Editorial Board, now retiring.
这是对现已退休的六位编辑委员会成员为Brontë研究做出的不懈贡献的感谢。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2077993
M. Wallace
John Brontë was a grandson of the Reverend Patrick Brontë’s eldest brother, William. John publicly endorsed Dr William Wright’s The Brontës in Ireland (1893) during a debate on that book’s merits and its claims regarding the Irish influences on the Brontës’ novels. This paper presents new research on the life of John Brontë and the role he played in supporting Wright. A copy of The Brontës in Ireland, inscribed to John by the author, has come to light and evidences a meeting between the two men in Haworth days after Wright made a last attempt to defend his work. Although John Brontë was a credible witness with a persuasive character, his support for Wright was ignored. In the context of recently renewed interest in The Brontës in Ireland, it is timely to revisit John’s contribution. This paper also examines a second book which was passed on through John’s family: annotations by John’s daughter, Catherine, on a copy of Clement Shorter’s The Brontës and their Circle (1896) suggest the possibility that the Brontës of County Down and Arthur Bell Nicholls’ family of Country Antrim were known to each other.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2076790
Bob Duckett
William Makepeace Thackeray’s introduction to a fragment of a story written by Charlotte Brontë, titled ‘Emma’, was first published in 1860. 1 Thackeray laments the unfinished nature of the story, and recalls meeting Charlotte in London.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2077984
Bob Duckett
A ‘Flash Novella’, the author tells us ‘[... ] is a collection of short stories that work by themselves but also link together to form a complete work.’ The link here is the love that Dan and Lulu have for each other from their teenage years into middle adulthood—Dan from a seemingly normal household and Lulu from an orphanage. Like Cathy and Heathcliff though, they lose contact and are destined to be apart. Well, sort of! We are getting used to the transformation of the Bront€e story, and stories, into various types of fiction. Traditionalists may grumble but it is all part of the Bront€e legacy. The Bront€e siblings themselves, after all, wrote fictional novels based on their real-life events— though less so in the case of Emily perhaps. Orphan Lulu was given Wuthering Heights (by a supervising nun!) which became her lifelong companion. The novel fuelled a poetic talent, with Lulu leaving enigmatic messages on tree stumps and stones. Dan was into pop culture—Johnny Cash, Prince, and Echo and the Bunnymen feature in the narrative— before becoming the minister at Haworth. The structure of the finished work is a little unusual. Despite its 150 pages though, line spacing and page layouts are generous with ‘white space’ and the whole can be read in an hour or so—more like a slim volume of poetry than a novel. The prose is indeed richly poetic and the whole work bittersweet. It remains in the memory long after the author’s epilogue is read. On a lighter note, I’m still chuckling over the idea of a pub on the edge of Haworth Moor called ‘The Wuthering Heights’, and that Emily’s novel itself could be used as therapy for a disturbed child! Andy Houstoun is a philosophy teacher and a much-published short story writer.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2079219
G. Tytler
Literary criticism on Wuthering Heights (1847) has long been notable for its references to Catherine and Heathcliff as supreme fictional lovers. Yet a careful reading of the novel would suggest that this standpoint is something of an exaggeration. Whereas there can be no doubt whatsoever that Heathcliff remains consistently in love with Catherine from his boyhood until his death, it is not quite so certain that Catherine's love for Heathcliff is of a similarly amorous nature. Indeed, there is much to suggest that her love for Heathcliff is essentially the same as the affection she felt for him during their childhood. In this connection, it is noteworthy that amid her relationship with Heathcliff after his return from abroad, and despite those occasions when she gives the impression of being more on Heathcliff's side than on her husband's, Catherine nonetheless remains dependent on Edgar for her security and well-being.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2077976
G. Tytler
Amid our absorption in the story of Wuthering Heights (1847), we might find ourselves paying but scant attention to certain features forming an essential part of the structure of this masterpiece. One such feature is the use of crying or the shedding of tears as means whereby the author throws light not only on characters subject to such emotional reactions, but also on those who hold specific attitudes to weeping in general. Thus our impressions of Catherine, Heathcliff, and Nelly Dean may be modified or confirmed by the tears they are given to, as much as by their responses to the tears of others. Especially interesting are the ways in which the second Catherine and Hareton Earnshaw, each of whom is memorable for crying on occasion, are practically alone in feeling compassion for those about to cry or already in a tearful state. And perhaps it is partly for this reason that they may both be said to have justifiably achieved no little heroic status by the end of the novel.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2072496
Bob Duckett
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2072499
Patsy Stoneman
combine the ‘Encounters’ of Holland and the visitor accounts of Lemon in a separate publication. A listing of these encounters was needed here. Holland writes well, and while he covers familiar ground, his research is up to date and insightful. We get a pleasing picture of an intelligent and knowledgeable Anne Bront€e. Written for a popular market, the Notes on sources, and a Selected Bibliography will meet with approval from scholars and critics, though not, perhaps, the lack of meaningful chapter headings and the absence of an index. But in the words of critic Peter Cook, the author is ‘an enthusiast of the best sort, seeking to share his lifelong love and considerable knowledge of the Bront€es and their work with as wide an audience as possible’ (BS 44(30), p. 326). And ‘[... ] finally, thank you Anne Bront€e—happy 200th birthday’ (p. 10).
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043070
Sally Jaspars, S. Bowden, E. L. Diz, H. Hutchison
This research is focussed on Anne Brontë’s collection of stones, which are housed at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and how they connect to her time in Scarborough. Obtained during the ‘golden age’ of geology, the collection was recently recharacterized using Raman spectroscopy. In this interdisciplinary study, we explore possible sources of the stones and the different factors that may have influenced Anne to obtain and maintain her collection of stones. The significance of Anne Brontë’s stones and her connections to mineralogy and geology reveal Anne’s interest, knowledge and abilities within these fields.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14748932.2022.2043675
G. Sadaka, V. Panossian
This essay locates avenues in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Villette for discussing the parameters of women writers’ internalized patriarchy in Victorian Britain. The first segment treats the importance of the protagonists’ reliance upon different mise-en-abyme books, which act as mirrors that reflect and foreshadow the forlornness of Victorian women in Charlotte Brontë’s two novels. In the second segment, we discuss how Jane and Lucy acknowledge and become the delegates of Thanatos, the androcentric privilege, at the end of their narratives. Psychoanalytic concepts such as the mirror metaphor and the discussion of Eros and Thanatos are used as means to appreciate the detour of desire (which constitutes literary narrative) in the inevitable tour of death.
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