Resurrection, Poe and Isabella

 Two new Brontë-related papers:

The Gothic Body and Resurrection in Wuthering Heights and The Fall of the House of Usher

by Junge Dou

Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies 3(1). 24-33 (2021)

Emily Bronté’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) are the best representative of the Gothic works in British and American literature. Not only do they inherit the Gothic traditions, they also put forward the genre by creating their own country’s styles. Poe founds the traditional writing mode of American psychological and introverted Gothic by creating “the terror of the soul’, meanwhile, Brontë undercuts the distinction between Gothic and domestic narratives in the nineteenth century British literary history. In depicting Madeline Usher’s Gothic death, mysterious resurrection and the disembodiment and mental breakdown of Roderick Usher, Poe, presents the incest-taboo, his view of after-life and the ghost haunting the House of Usher, the text and democratic America. Bronté, on the other hand, portraying Catherine Earnshaw’s death and ghost, Heathcliff’s revenge and dubious identity, suggests the instability caused by slavery, racial and colonial issues, Gothic and domestic novels, which makes the novel becomes the dark secret at the heart of the history of literature.

The Character Development of Isabella Linton in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Novel

Marselina Mistin Asmiaty, Singgih Daru Kuncara, Indah Sari Lubis

English Department, Faculty of Cultural Studies

Mulawarman University

Ilmu Budaya,  Volume 6 | Nomor 2 | April 2022 | Hpp 439-451

The purposes of this research were to find the character development of Isabella Linton and what are the events that influence Isabella Linton’s character development. This research applied an objectives approach and the researcher used Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights novel as the source of data. The data were taken from the dialogues between characters and narrations that indicate Isabella Linton’s character development based on Kenan’s theory and the events that influence Isabella Linton’s character development based on Griffith’s theory. The finding of this research using Kenan’s theory showed that Isabella Linton experienced character development from a spoiled and innocent young lady became a brave, responsible, and independent woman. Then, the finding using Griffith’s theory of plot showed that Isabella Linton experiences character development at the exposition events, rising action, climax, falling action, and stable situation