Brontë transformations : the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

Brontë transformations : the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights / Patsy Stoneman.

This landmark book - entirely unobtainable for several years - is the single essential study of how the best-known Bront︠ novels - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - achieved their world-wide fame. It offers a fascinating account of how the novels have passed into the general culture through a wide v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoneman, Patsy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brighton : Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2018.
Edition:Second expanded edition.
Subjects:
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855. > Jane Eyre.
Brontë, Emily, > 1818-1848. > Wuthering Heights.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
English fiction > Appreciation > History.
English fiction > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The nineteenth century. 'Tableaux of astonishment': Jane Eyre on the stage, 1848-56. Jane Eyre and the woman's novel, 1850-70. 'Protected by this strong arm': Jane Eyre on the stage, 1867-1909
  • Ch. 2. The turn of the century. Versions of Bertha, 1892-1917. Emily Bronte and the New Women, 1883-1904
  • Ch. 3. Mainly biographical. 'The blank page called for the scribble', 1904-32. Bronte ghosts conjured and confronted, 1855-1946
  • Ch. 4. The inter-war period. Jane Eyre between private and public worlds, 1921-38. 'The world's great love stories': Brontes recuperated, 1920-44
  • Ch. 5. After the Second World War. Romance into Gothic: Jane Eyre turns paranoid. Jane Eyre as mirror and monster: intertextual strategies in women's self-representation. Romance into realism: Wuthering Heights comes down to earth. 'Kinship with the proud': Wuthering Heights canonized in music
  • Ch. 6. Jane Eyre's other: the emergence of Bertha
  • Ch. 7. Recent developments: 'Women's books, aren't they?': illustrations, musicals, stage, film and television. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as popular currency. Catching them young: the Brontë heroines as female role models. The sequels syndrome: writing beyond the ending?
  • Jane Eyre derivatives listed chronologically (to 1997)
  • Wuthering Heights derivatives listed chronologically (to 1995)
  • Jane Eyre derivatives 1995-2017: a selected list
  • Wuthering Heights derivatives 1995-2017: a selected list.

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