Prequels, Coquels, Sequels

A recent book with several Brontë-related content:

Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction
by Armelle Parey
Routledge
ISBN 9781138345157
2018

This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic sequels are almost as old as literature, prequels – that imagine the anteriority of a narrative – and coquels – that develop secondary characters in the same story time as the source-text – are more recent. The overall trend for novel expansion spread in the mid-1980s and 1990s and has since shown no sign of abating.
This volume is organised following three types of relationships to the source-texts even if these occasionally combine to produce a more complex structure. This book comprises 11 essays, preceded by an introduction, that examine narrative strategies, aesthetic, ethical and political tendencies underlying these novel expansions. Following the overview provided in the introduction, the reader will find case studies of prequels, coquels and sequels before a final chapter that encompasses them all and more.

Several chapters deal with Brontë prequels, coquels, sequels, whateverels... :

"Wide Sargasso Sea as a Prequel to Jane Eyre: From Visuality to Iconicity" (1966) by Anne-Laue Fortin-Tournès
Literary Filiations and Textual Archeology: Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child by Françoise Král
Uncanny Repetitions: The Generative Power of the "Reader, I Married Him" Mantra in Tracy Chevalier’s Anthology of Short Stories by Georges Letissier