A couple of new Brontë-related papers have been recently published:
by M.F. Rabbi Journal of Pundra University of Science & Technology, Volume-4, Issue-1, January-2025 Issue, p. 61
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a classic piece of Gothic and Romantic literature from the 19th century, and its plot intricately integrates the characters’ psychological makeup with the physical surroundings. By examining how the geographical surroundings of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, in particular, both influence and are influenced by the inner lives and experiences of its residents, this study examines the notions of space and psychogeography in Wuthering Heights. By analyzing these two different settings, this paper makes the case that Brontë reflects social and individual divisions like freedom vs restriction, nature versus civilization, and passion versus repression through spatial dichotomies. According to this account, psychogeography studies how these landscapes function as active agents in the formation of characters’ identities and their intricate relationships rather than just serving as passive backgrounds. This study also looks at how Brontë’s book subverts conventional Victorian ideas of home and belonging by presenting a wild, surreal landscape that represents rebellious impulses and unwavering passions. Characters like Heathcliff and Catherine are depicted as symbols of the untamed and strange moor through the novel’s use of elemental forces, such as storms, winds, and isolation, which blur the lines between the internal and external worlds. This paper traces the influence of place as a dynamic, destabilizing force within Brontë’s fictional world and examines how Wuthering Heights embodies a proto-psychogeographic study that emphasizes the psychological impact of space on human behavior and identity through an analysis of spatial metaphors and imagery. In the end, this paper makes the case that Wuthering Heights’ psychogeographic elements help to depict a world ruled by wild forces and emotional extremes, providing a critique of Victorian social values through its radical reworking of spatial relationships.
by Ouana Alassane Sekongo, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d’Ivoire Ziglôbitha, Revue des Arts, Linguistique,Littérature & Civilisations Université, n°17, Vol.2 – Mars 2026
In nineteenth-century England, Victorianism was an ideology based on the principle that men are more rational than women. As such, it divided the societyinto two distinct spheres, which were the private sphere for women and the public sphere for men. This paper aims to highlight that Brontë coins the character Jane, an educated and defiant girl who subverts these social norms and works hard to enterthe public space just as men. In addition to textual evidence, the article relies on Judith Butler’s (1990) theory of deconstructing gender norms in order to demonstrate how Brontë’s novel questions the Victorian gender system and opens doors for women to express themselves and reveal their talents. The study concludesthat after defying the ideology of Victorianism, Jane has not only got access to formaleducation, but also worked in the public sphere as a teacher. She, therefore, standsas a resilient an emergent girl, serving as a role model for 21st century women.
My favourite classic reads I was soon drawn to the Brontë sisters. It wasn’t just the books, of course, it was also their story. How could you not feel pity at their situation but also envy that they were able to share their writing with their siblings? I have a battered anthology of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall right by my desk. Charlotte’s Jane Eyre will always call to me. The writing is deceptively simple but the story fascinating, if chilling, and the heroine, as in so many of their books, ahead of her time.
If you're interested in a diva imbroglio of Sky Ferreira accusing Charli XCX of using old songs of hers for her Wuthering Heights album, then this is your news story. Movie Locations shares the filming locations used for Wuthering Heights 1970. An alert for tomorrow, April 6 in Porto Alegre, Brazil:
Sala Redenção, R. Eng. Luiz Englert, 333 - Farroupilha, Porto Alegre - RS, 90040-040, Brazil April 6, 3:00 – 6:00pm “O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes”, lançado em 1847, foi o único romance de Emily Brontë. A violência e paixão como retratou a relação entre os personagens Catherine Earnshaw e Heathcliff, na remota e hostil charneca do Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, escandalizou a sociedade vitoriana. Com o passar do tempo, a obra tornou-se um clássico da literatura inglesa e foi várias vezes adaptada para a televisão e o cinema.ç Wuthering Heights 1992 + Talk with Fatimarlei Lunaderlli
In The Times, Sophia Money-Coutts writes about walking. It’s probably fair to say that as a teenager I was overly influenced by the heroines of period dramas. Marianne Dashwood from Sense and Sensibility was my favourite because she is so dreamily romantic — so romantic that she nearly dies for love, and as a cloistered girl in a single-sex boarding school that seemed an appropriate level of drama to me. I was further impressed by the sass of Lizzy Bennet from Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre’s inner turmoil. Additionally, I noted with interest, all three were keen walkers. For these women, walking seemed to be a way of dealing with feelings and thrashing out thoughts.
Tell us: The first book you ever remember reading: Jane Eyre
This is a recent scholarly book in English and Spanish with Brontë-related content:
Edited by Rocío Riestra Camacho Dykinson Libros Colección: Escritoras y Escrituras ISBN: 9788413775753
El lenguaje, como facultad humana idiosincrática, parece haber otorgado a las mujeres una cierta ventaja sobre los hombres a lo largo de la historia. Cuando estas han tenido que vencer, uno tras otro, los desafíos auspiciados por las diferencias, desigualdades y estereotipias de género, la capacidad del lenguaje ha sido para las mujeres una vía alternativa a lo que para los hombres era más fácilmente accesible en términos de poder político, autoría, propiedad o agencia. Concretamente, a lo largo de la evolución, las mujeres han desarrollado una gran potencialidad para el uso de la fluencia verbal y las analogías (Amor Andrés 587), ambas características fundamentales a la hora de crear narrativas y poder poner voz a sus ideas y anhelos. La lengua inglesa ha sido, dada la hegemonía socio geopolítica de los países en los que se utiliza como lengua materna, segunda lengua o bien como idioma extranjero, un vehículo privilegiado para tales fines, y lo cierto es que sigue siéndolo en la actualidad. Estados Unidos, Inglaterra, Irlanda, Escocia o Canadá pero también Puerto Rico o Jamaica son algunos de los territorios en los que nos adentraremos en el recorrido filológico que hace esta obra. Narrativas y voces angloamericanas y gaélicas en clave feminista pone de manifiesto estas realidades, al colocar el foco en un fantástico y variopinto elenco de mujeres a las que la historia y las letras en y de la lengua inglesa no consiguieron silenciar. Comencemos, pues, nuestro viaje.
One of the chapters is: Reconsiderando y (des)mitificando cuerpos brontëanos a través de narrativas neo-victorianas by Marta Bernabeu Lorenzo More Recent Articles
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