St. John le calviniste, ou l’émule de Gil-Martin by Jean Berton

“…John, who appears in chapters XXVI to XXXV and is mentioned again in the conclusion of Jane Eyre. Some unexpected words, like “glen”, in a greater Yorkshire area, operate as keywords to a “deep context” study in a neo-contextualist approach. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Intertextuality is also a powerful way of opening the text on others such as Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’ or Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and voicing a growing feeling of dissatisfaction against an imposed and inappropriate role for women.…”
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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. We will study in this article how Lin Haire-Sargeant’s attempt at re-writing highlights the usual aims of the retro-Victorian novel: taking advantage of the blanks left by the source novels to propose to the reader a modern critical approach, while at the same time being as faithful as possible to the writing conventions of the 19th century, and suggesting another point of view on a well-known story, through a postmodern mixing of historical and fictive characters.…”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

“…This essay analyses the Brontë sisters’ shared writing and walking practices in the Haworth parsonage dining-room in order to explore how communal indoor walking may have influenced the composition and content of the novels that were written there: Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, The Professor, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, and Villette. …”
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Emily and Charlotte Brontë’s Re-reading of the Byronic hero by Cristina Ceron

“…On the contrary, in spite of some juvenile experiments on the gothic, Charlotte’s reading of the Byronic hero is much more framed within the conventions of the realistic novel, and in the second section of my essay I maintain that what comes to the fore in Jane Eyre is the unsurpassed mastery the novelist shows in the combination of the realistic plot with the gothic elements and features of the protagonists. …”
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