Scholar survey

Some recent scholar publications:

'In Company of a Gipsy': The 'Gypsy' as Trope in Woolf and Brontë
Author: Bardi, Abby
Critical Survey, Volume 19, Number 1, June 2007 , pp. 40-50(11)

(...) In Villette, too, Gypsies function briefly but significantly as a vehicle for the destabilisation of gender and social roles: references to Gypsies occur during a key episode, Lucy Snowe’s visit to an art gallery where she views Rubens’ painting of Cleopatra. Here, as in Orlando, the Gypsy trope performs an operation in which gender appears to become suddenly unstable. (Read more)

The Female Gothic Subtext:Gender Politics in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper
Author: Pazhavila, Angie
Institution: Seattle University
Publisher: Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal (2007)
Abstract:
This essay examines how Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper found, in the conventions of the Gothic genre, a forum in which to address the universality of female suffering, as well as introduce progressive notions for the modification of female conduct. Gothic literature, while allowing the reader to live vicariously through the heroine's ordeals in a world of danger and mystery, also provided women authors with the ideal medium in which to conceal radical critiques of the gender politics of their age. Socialist and humanist values are prevalent in both texts, and while Jane Eyre is an educational novel, aiming to show the reader what happens when the protagonist has integrity, and fights for her rights, The Yellow Wallpaper is a cautionary tale, warning readers of the result when the protagonist does not fight back against those who would oppress her.

And some reviews published:

Beth Newman
Review of Janet Gezari's Last Things: The Poems of Emily Brontë.
The Review of English Studies Advance Access published on November 20, 2007.
doi:10.1093/res/hgm130

Anthony Chennells
Review of Diana Peschier's Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Brontë
The Heythrop Journal 48 (5), 811–813.

Categories: Journals, Scholar