Recent Scholar work (I)

Some recent Brontë-related scholar works that have not been featured on BrontëBlog before:

May Sinclair
Moving Towards the Modern
Edited by Andrew J. Kunka, University of South Carolina Sumter, USA, and Michele K. Troy, Hillyer College–University of Hartford, USA
Ashgate
December 2006
Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5466-7

May Sinclair was a central figure in the modernist movement, whose contribution has long been underacknowledged. A woman of both modern and Victorian impulses, a popular novelist who also embraced modernist narrative techniques, Sinclair embodied the contradictions of her era. The contributors to this collection, the first on Sinclair's career and writings, examine these contradictions, tracing their evolution over the span of Sinclair's professional life as they provide insights into Sinclair's complex and enigmatic texts. In doing so, they engage with the cultural and literary phenomena Sinclair herself critiqued and influenced: the evolving literary marketplace, changing sexual and social mores, developments in the fields of psychology, the women's suffrage movement, and World War I. Sinclair not only had her finger on the pulse of the intellectual and social challenges of her time, but also she was connected through her writing with authors located in diverse regions of literary modernism's social web, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, Charlotte Mew, and Dorothy Richardson. The volume is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the political, social, and literary currents of the modernist period.

The book contains the articles:

May Sinclair and the Brontës: 'virgin priestesses of art' by Jane Silvey.
The 'genius of enfranchised womanhood': suffrage and The Three Brontës by Philippa Martindale.

More recent papers:

Why Charlotte Dissed Emily by Stone, Laurie
Literary Review; Spring 2006, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p63-70, 8p

Abstract
The article presents the author's experience in reading Victorian literature specially reading works of Charlotte Brontë.

George Eliot's Conversation with Currer Bell by Margaret Harris
George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, 50-51 (2006), 130-42.

Finally, several articles that were published in Notes and Queries:

Helena Kelly A Possible Literary Source for Jane Eyre (Ethelinde, or The recluse of the lake (1789) by Charlotte Turner Smith)
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 443-444

Margarita Stocker Names and the Yorkshire Heritage in ‘Jane Eyre’
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 444-448

Monica Germanà Plagiarising the Ettrick Shepherd? A Note on the Manuscript of Charlotte Brontë's Tales of the Islanders and Winifred Gérin's Emily Brontë
Notes and Queries 2008 55: 461-463

Categories: Books, Journals, Scholar