Brontë transformations : the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
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Brontë transformations : the cultural dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996
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Includes Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights derivatives (p. 254-324), general bibliography (p. 325-336), and index
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Description
This work considers the ways in which two famous Bronte novels have passed into the general culture, including stage, film and television versions, book illustrations, comic books and paintings, operatic, ballet and musical versions, parodies, allusion, all kinds of incidental references, and also later "re-workings" of the original plot. It offers analyses of the various texts in terms of their historical and generic construction, aiming to relate the form of each derivative to its ideological function. This is achieved through a mix of traditional literary criticism with feminist, psychoanalytic and deconstructive techniques.
Table of Contents
The 19th Century. "Tableaux of astonishment": Jane Eyre on the stage, 1848-56. Jane Eyre and the Woman's Novel, 1850-70. "Protected by the Strong Arm": Jane Eyre on the Stage, 1867-1909. The Turn of the Century. Versions of Bertha, 1892-1917. Emily Bronte and the New Women, 1883-1904. Mainly Biographical. "The Blank Page Called for the Scribble", 1904-32. Bronte Ghosts Conjured and Confronted, 1855-1946. The Inter War Period. Jane Eyre between Private and Public Worlds, 1921-38. "The Worlds Great Love Stories": Brontes Recuperated, 1920-44. After the Second World War. Romance into Gothic: Jane Eyre Turns Paranoid. Jane Eyre as a 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. Jane Eyres Other: The Emergence of Bertha. Recent Developments."Women's Books, aren't they?": Illustrations, Musicals, Stage, Film and Television. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as a Popular Currency. Catching them Young: The Bronte Heroines as Female Role Models. The Sequels Syndrome: Writing Beyond the Ending?
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