Brontë in journals

Here are some recent articles published in the scholar literature related to the Brontës.

The last issue of Victorian Studies (Volume 48, Number 1 Autumn 2005) contains a review of the Oxford Companion to the Brontës.

BOOK REVIEWS
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes, edited by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith (p. 193)

The Gaskell Society Newsletter (No 41, Spring 2006) contains several articles that are Brontë-related:

Letters Relating to The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Joan Leach)
Two Books about the Brontë (Elizabeth Williams)

and these two others that are also tangentially interesting to us:

84 Plymouth Grove - The Gaskell House (read this previous post of ours)
The Yorkshire Branch of the Society

And finally an interesting article about Jane Eyre and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (free to download) in The Journal of Popular Culture (Volume 38 Issue 6 Page 1022 - November 2005)

The End of The Eyre Affair: Jane Eyre, Parody, and Popular Culture
Erica Hateley

Charlotte Brontë's best-known novel, JaneEyre (1847), has not been out of print since initial publication, continues to sell well, and has been the source of at least twenty-one films. Beyond this, the novel has sustained a varied "afterlife," appearing in or as numerous sequels, prequels, simultaneous tales, stage plays, a musical, comic books, parodies, postage stamps, and, of course, literary criticism. Jane Eyre, then, is clearly readable as one of the consistent motifs of our culture's self-representation. However, rather than catalogue the afterlife of Jane Eyre, this article seeks to interrogate the ends to which it is used in a very specific popular cultural example from popular fiction: Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (2001). (read more)

Not exactly a journal, but a contribution to a conference, we notice this presentation on the PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association) 2006 National Conference:

April 14, 10:00 AM
Famished: Food and Female Communion in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jane Eyre
Erin Branch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

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