A new paper that tangentially has a Brontë connection:
Représentations dans le monde anglophone [En ligne], 29 | 2025, mis en ligne le 11 décembre 2025
This article examines Caryl Phillips’s novel The Lost Child (2015) as an example of rewriting that generates a form of resurgence, evoking the impact of Britain’s past on the present social context. By inserting scenes imagining Heathcliff as the child of a former slave, Phillips creates an intertextual relation to Wuthering Heights (1847) that suggests a possible connection between the main story line and Brontë’s novel. Critics tend to highlight Phillips’s use of multiple storylines as a way of connecting past and present; this approach emphasizes the intellectual aspect of the author’s narrative strategy while failing to take fully into account the emotional dimension of his stories. A closer look at the author’s use of narrative voice enables one to measure the emotional dimension of resurgence. Dorrit Cohn’s approach to the expression of subjectivity in narrative provides theoretical tools for measuring the ways in which Phillips uses free indirect discourse and interior monologue to explore his characters’ ability (or inability) to cope with the pressures of society, thus either overcoming or succumbing to the lasting effects of slavery.
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