Critical Insights

Another recent scholarly book that, for some reason, was never reported in BrontëBlog:

Critical Insights: The Brontë Sisters

Editor: Robert C. Evans

Salem Press

ISBN: 978-1-63700-073-1

January 2022

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, are well known English poets and novelists of the nineteenth century. This volume closely examines Charlotte’s masterpiece Jane Eyre, Emily’s influential Wuthering Heights, and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, to give readers a deeper sense of the themes throughout these important works and the influences behind their creation. Common themes throughout the sisters’ works are love, gender, class, and the intersections of all three, and this volume explores these topics and more, setting the work of the Brontë sisters into various contexts, such as biographical, historical, social, cultural, and aesthetic.

The book includes the following essays:

•  “The air swarmed with Catherines”: Moving Words and Stereoscopic Narrative in Wuthering Heights, by Kara M. Manning
• The Myth of the Brontës, by Brandon Schneeberger
• “It is only English girls who can thus be trusted to travel alone”: Class, Travel, and Work in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, by Sarah McNeely
• Lucy Snowe in Belgium: Work and Colonialism in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, by
  Sarah McNeely
• Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor: Overbearing Men and the Gleam of Female Intellect, by John Rignall
• Emily Brontë: The Man Branwell Should Have Been, by Tracy Hayes
• The Experience of Marriage in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Jeremy Tambling
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë: A Survey of Editorial Introductions, 1950–1989, by Robert C. Evans
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë: A Survey of Editorial Introductions, 1990–2020, by Joyce Ahn
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë: A Survey of Editorial Introductions, 1950–1989, by Robert C. Evans
• Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë: A Survey of Editorial Introductions, 1990–2020, by Joyce Ahn
• Charlotte Brontë’s “Other” Novels: A Survey of Editorial Introductions, 1974–2008, by Robert C. Evans
• Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë: A Survey of Editorial Introductions, 1969–2020, by Robert C. Evans
• The 1996 Film of Jane Eyre: A Survey of Reviews, by Jordan Bailey
• The 2009 Film of Wuthering Heights: Critical Problems and Possibilities, by McKenna Odom
• The 2011 Film of Wuthering Heights: A Survey of Reviews, Mikia Holloway