...Abby Scribner Abby Scribner, “‘Grim, metal darlings’: The Automated Women of Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley ” (pp. 257–285) In this essay, I argue that Charlotte Brontë’s industrial novel Shirley details the consequences of the Marxist critique of industrial subjectivity in the feminized domestic...

...Amy Coté Amy Coté, “‘A Handful of Loose Beads’: Catholicism and the Fictional Autobiography in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette ” (pp. 473–494) This essay considers the influence of confession as a Catholic liturgical sacrament and as a literary genre informing the fictional autobiography in Charlotte...

...Matthew Heitzman Matthew Heitzman, “‘He Resembled the Great Emperor’: Charlotte Brontë, Villette , and the Rise of Napoleon III” (pp. 199–223) This essay offers a local historical context for Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853), reading it in relation to the rise of Napoleon III as Emperor of France...

...Winter Jade Werner Winter Jade Werner, “All in the Family? Missionaries, Marriage, and Universal Kinship in Jane Eyre ” (pp. 452–486) As a number of critics have shown, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) has as a central theme the analysis of certain essential contradictions in a constellation...

... appropriation by those influences. © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California 2015 Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights selfishness Charlotte Brontë sociality Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run Selfishness and Sociality in Wuthering Heights T H O M A S J . J O U D R E Y...

.... I would like to thank Gabriel Cervantes, David Namie, Dahlia Porter, Kelly Wisecup, and Erika Wright for reading and commenting upon earlier drafts of this essay. 455 imagination. In the late 1840s the governess reached her artistic heyday, featuring prominently in Charlotte Bronte¨ s Jane Eyre...

...Rebecca N. Mitchell In both Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871–72) an earnest and ambitious man falls in love with a superficial and beautiful woman named Rosamond. This essay explores the “Rosamond plots” to argue that Middlemarch stages a radical revision...

...Anne Longmuir Critical investigations of the foreign settings of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor (1857) and Villette (1853) have tended to conceive Belgium (fictionalized as Labassecour in Villette ) as simply "not England." In contrast, this essay considers the historic and geographic specificity...