Emily Brontë and the Gothic: Female Characters in Wuthering Heights by Yukari Oda

“…Rather, what I would like to see in this paper is how Emily Brontë received the Gothic and how her female characters are influenced by the genre. …”
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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…The paper argues that Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights holds up a ‘glass darkly’ to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, amplifying the dark elements of humanity which Dickens would acknowledge more and more in later novels. …”
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L’étrangeté d’une langue étrangère : (dé)familiariser l’expérience belge d’Emily Brontë by Augustin Trapenard

“…The story of Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s 1842 sojourn in Brussels is a topos of the « Brontë myth », and from 1850 onwards, in every biographical or critical study, the « Belgian experience » has been used as a privileged tool to read their lives and works. …”
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De la petite chanson aux rafales du vent : le parcours de la ritournelle dans l’œuvre poétique d’Emily Brontë by Charlotte Borie

“…This little song is to be found in Emily Brontë’s poetry, repeating itself, evolving, up until its essence is finally endorsed by the voice of the wind which woos the poet into a poetic transe. …”
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Cri(me)s et Hurlements dans Wuthering Heights by Claire Bazin

“…The end of the book is placed under the aegis of peace and harmony, which might mean that Emily Brontë has opted for a more traditional Victorian ending. …”
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The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights de Lin Haire-Sargeant (1992), ou le « deux en un » de la ré-écriture by Isabelle Roblin

“…It could indeed be classified doubly as a “retro-Victorian novel” since it partly re-writes not only Emily Brontë’s most famous novel, Wuthering Heights, as the title points out, but also, somewhat less obviously, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. …”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

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Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

“…Unlike her sisters, Emily Brontë stands, in her solitude, for some form of sacred violence and for the rejection of the identification of God with reason. …”
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Emily and Charlotte Brontë’s Re-reading of the Byronic hero by Cristina Ceron

“…For Victorian novelists, one of the most intriguing aspects of his works was his obsessive explorations of literal or symbolic sibling incest, as the possibility that desire arises from an identification between male and female versions of the same psyche. Emily Brontë’s reading of Byron privileges this dark side of the literary myth, and her main focus is on the mysterious identity and Gothic aspects of the Byronic hero. …”
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