A new book on sequels with a couple of Brontë-related chapters:
A successful novel must be in want of a sequel : second takes on classics from The Scarlet Letter to Rebecca
M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo.
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7282-3
2019
What happened after Mr. Darcy married Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice? Where did Heathcliff go when he disappeared in Wuthering Heights? What social ostracism would Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter have faced in 20th century America? Great novels often leave behind great questions, and sequels seek to answer them. This critical analysis offers fresh insights into the sequels to seven literary classics, including Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, the Brontë sisters’ Jane Eyre, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.
The book contains the chapters:
3. The Madwoman in the Attic and Other Family Secrets: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The French Dancer’s Bastard by Emma Tennant 66
4. Beyond Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Windward Heights by Maryse Condé and Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights by Lin Haire-Sargeant 78
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