New Brontë OUPs

New Brontë titles in the Oxford University Press catalogue. A new edition and some new covers:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
New Edition
Edited by Herbert Rosengarten
Introduction by Josephine McDonagh

Price: £6.99 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920755-8
Publication date: 17 April 2008
496 pages, 196x129 mm
Series: Oxford World's Classics

Description

* A new edition of Anne Brontë's compelling novel about the destructive consequences of alcoholism on a marriage, featuring a wide-ranging new introduction, and up-to-date editorial material.
* New, wide-ranging introduction by Josephine McDonagh examines the intellectual and cultural context of the novel, its complex narrative structure and the contemporary moral and medical debates about alcohol and the body with which the novel engages.
* Reprints the authoritative Clarendon text in improved typesetting.
* Improved chronology
* Up-to-date bibliography
* Additional notes draw attention to the novel's use of contemporary medical publications on the effects of alcohol, on the study of physiognomy and phrenology and on the author's wide range of reading.

This "new edition" of Jane Eyre basically looks like the 2000 one with the same editors:

Jane Eyre
New Edition

Charlotte Brontë
Edited by Margaret Smith
with introduction and notes by Sally Shuttleworth

Price: £5.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953559-0
Publication date: 17 April 2008
542 pages, 196x129 mm
Series: Oxford World's Classics

In this new edition Sally Shuttleworth explores the power of a narrative that questions the rights of women, the nature of servitude and madness, martyrdom and rebellion in a story whose emotional charge is a strong today as it was more than 150 years ago.

Another "new edition" (?) is Villette:

Villette
New Edition
Charlotte Brontë
Edited by Margaret Smith
with introduction and notes by Tim Dolin

Price: £6.99 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953665-8
Publication date: 17 April 2008
Oxford Paperbacks
592 pages, 196x129 mm
Series: Oxford World's Classics

REISSUE
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Edited by Ian Jack
With an introduction and notes by Patsy Stoneman

Price: £5.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953560-6
Publication date: 17 April 2008
432 pages, 196x129 mm
Series: Oxford World's Classics

EDIT: Check the OUP's blog for more information.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette, Wuthering Heights