Some Brontë-related recent articles:Food For Thought: Emily Brontë - Philosopher Tim Madigan wants moor!
Philosophy now. Issue 90, ; 2012, 35
Tim Madigan philosophizes poetically.
As one who has spent many a summer’s day reading philosophy in ‘chambers drear’, I can empathize with Emily Brontë’s poem. For several years now I have made use of her poetry when teaching Introduction to Philosophy classes, in order to show that some of the deepest issues in this discipline can best be expressed in non-prosaic terms.
One of the questions we consider in class is why there have been so few female philosophers until fairly recent times. We first read Plato’s arguments in The Republic as to why there cannot be a truly just society until all citizens, both male and female, are given equal opportunity to excel; then we study Aristotle’s rejoinder that such a policy would be folly, since women are by nature inferior to men, intellectually and physically. This point is reiterated later in the course by selections from the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, a vociferous misogynist, who argued that women were really just big children, unable to understand abstract thought.
Emily Brontë's Heathcliff: His Journey of Jealousy
Kitty Carlislea
The Explicator. Volume 70, Issue 1, 2012 pages 46-48
`Warm effusions of the heart': The poetry of Patrick Brontë
Crow, A.
The English review. Vol 22; Numb 3, ; 2012, 33-35
Emily Brontë's Defeat of Death and Unintended Solace for Grief
Inman, L.
Victorians : a journal of culture and literature. Numb 121, ; 2012, 103-114
Filming Brontë's ``Ghostly Absence'': Kosminsky's Wuthering Heights as a Cinefantastic Text
Catania, S.
Literature film quarterly. Vol 40; Numb 1, ; 2012, 20-29
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