Emily Brontë, painted by her brother, Branwell Brontë

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Introduction

"Emily Brontë." The Victorian Web, ed. George Landow. Essays on Emily Brontë's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian cultural and historical context.

"Emily Brontë." Overview of Emily Brontë, ed. Lilia Melani. Publication of Wuthering Heights, critical responses, film versions, themes, the narrator, Wuthering Heights as a socio-economic novel, psychological interpretations, religion, metaphysics, mysticism, the Gothic, Romanticism, love, "I am Heathcliff", sex, Emily Brontë's poetry.

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

"The Brontës." Older criticism, with annoying ads, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21).

Literary Criticism

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).

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 Brontë.

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 U, contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. An open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture.

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

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