Alison Case’s Nelly Dean (2016): An Exceptional Neo-Victorian Novel? by Isabelle Roblin

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Review: Hila Shachar, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2012; pp.244; RRP: $125 hardback by Jessica Taylor

“…Hila Shachar, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, 2012; pp.244; RRP: $125 hardback…”
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HOUSES IN THE ENGLISH NOVEL: MODERNISMS, EKPHRASES, AND THRESHOLDS by Michael Hattaway

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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. …”
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Caryl Phillips’s Rewriting of the Canonical Romance as a Genre by Polatti, Alessia

“…In The Lost Child, chronicling literary-historical events in the present tense by transferring the life of the Brontë family into the protagonists of Wuthering Heights (1847) is for the author one way of calling into question the real sense of literature. …”
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Women, love, and commodity culture in British romanticism / by Garofalo, Daniela, 1968-

Le cauchemar de Lockwood : sur la question de la Cruauté en Litérature (Lockwoods’ Nightmare: On the Question of Cruelty in Literature) by Josef Fulka

“…The aim of the present study is to analyze the phenomenon of dream in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, especially the nightmare of Lockwood, one of the principal narrators. …”
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The Metaphor of the Body as a House in 19th Century English Novels by Ioana Boghian

“…The metaphorical process will be approached from a semiopoetic perspective, while the textual support will be provided by such novels as: Great Expectations, Dombey and Son, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens, The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. …”
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Aquatic Matter: Water in Victorian Fiction by Kluwick Ursula

“…I argue that through the emphasis on these processes in a variety of water scenes from Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Lady Audley’s Secret, and Dracula, water emerges as not inert but agential. …”
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Redefining the Boundaries of Historical Writing and Historical Imagination in Carolyn Steedman’s Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age by Lejla Mulalić

“…As Steedman inhabits the position of both a professional historian, with all the ideological implications of that position, and Nelly Dean, a servant and narrator in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, this paper will consider her approach to historical imagination in the light of deconstructionist genre of historical writing.…”
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Literatura y vida. Una lectura de Victoria Ocampo by María Celia Vázquez

“…Thus, she identifies the vital experience of nature (the moors) as the key for the writer's personality as well as her novel's, Wuthering Heights.…”
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The Power of Love: Rewriting the Romance in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna by Frances Jane P. Abao

“…Latin American writer Isabel Allende's novels The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna both contain a number of the elements and conventions of romantic fiction, including distinct similarities to the two acknowledged foundations of this genre: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.However, The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna can also be read as rewritings of the genre of romantic fiction. …”
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Una riscrittura tempestosa: da Emily Brontë a Beppe Fenoglio passando per Wyler by Emanuele Broccio

“…It unmistakably indicates its “hypotext” in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. In addition, it also delineates its own identity in the elaborate contamination that the author/performer realizes between the narrative adapted text and the homonymous film directed by Wyler. …”
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Exonerating Eve: by S M Mahfuzur Rahman

“…The subversive strategy of delegitimizing the metanarrative of the Original Sin frequents in Shirley and haunts the gothic landscapes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, where the female central characters, Jane and Cathy respectively, undercut and undermine their feminine performativity by bending the will of their male counterparts. …”
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Social (in)Justice, or the Condition of Global Capitalism in the Lost Child (2015) by Caryl Phillips by Frątczak-Dąbrowska Marta

“…It is being argued that, by placing Wuthering Heights (1847) as an intertext for his contemporary novel and by linking the figure of Heathcliff with African slavery and contemporary poverty, Caryl Phillips aims to emphasise the affinity between the socio-economic conditioning of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, as well as between the contemporary and historical experience of economic marginalisation. …”
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A Struggle Between Literary and Self-Cannibalisation by Polatti, Alessia

“… This article discusses the after-lives of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) as they have been rendered in V.S. …”
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Hanging, crushing, and shooting: animals, violence and child-rearing in Bronte fiction by Shuttleworth, S

“…The idea of the human was interwoven with that of the animal for the Brontës more so than for any other novelists in the nineteenth century, and Shuttleworth addresses in detail three key moments of animal cruelty: the hanging of Isabella’s dog in Wuthering Heights, the crushing of birds in Agnes Grey, and the shooting of Victor’s dog in The Professor. …”

Evaluative Adjectives in the Portrayal of Victorian Women by Lyudmyla Gryzhak

“…Four novels written by the Victorian writers, approximately in the same time period, served as the source material for the research, namely E. Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” (1847), W. M. Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair” (1847), E. …”
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Una lectura en contrapunto de Wide Sargasso Sea y La migration des coeurs by Greta Montero Barra

“… El presente estudio es una lectura en contrapunto entre dos novelas que se plantean como reescritura de las conocidas obras canónicas inglesas de las hermanas Brontë, Jane Eyre y Wuthering Heights. A saber: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), de Jean Rhys, y La migration des coeurs (1995), de Maryse Condé. …”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

“…This essay analyses the Brontë sisters’ shared writing and walking practices in the Haworth parsonage dining-room in order to explore how communal indoor walking may have influenced the composition and content of the novels that were written there: Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, and Villette. …”
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