Kempner High School

Wuthering Heights / Jane Eyre Research

Overview

You will write a one paragraph (4-5 sentence) explanation of the event you have been assigned and be prepared to share your findings to your class.  You have one class period to complete this assignment.  Please note that your actual research paper does not need to be based on this topic.

* Note *  The following links will open on any school computer.  If you are working from home, you mustuse the password found in the Research folder of the Library Schoology page. 

Databases

Websearching

• Google Scholar

Topics for Searching

• Wuthering Heights
• Jane Eyre
• Charlotte Brontë

"Search within results"

• Key terms from your specific event 

Types of Resources

• Critical Reviews
• Biography
• Reference

Biography

• Charlotte Brontë - From: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism(Vol. 217. ) Gale, a Cengage Company

Work Overviews

• Jane Eyre - Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 155.) Gale
• Wuthering Heights 

Events

• The supernatural in Victorian times
  • Wuthering Heights - Supernatural Literature (Vol. 1: The Dead.)
  • Jane Eyre: Overview - Edward Chitham, Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.) Gale
  • Jane Eyre (Skip to Section: Brontë and the supernatural) -Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them(Vol. 2: Civil Wars to Frontier Societies (1800-1880s).
  • Swan maidens and spirits: the archetype of the fairy in Jane Eyre - Reuben Sass, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature(Issue 127)
• Industrial Revolution and the increase in city living
  • Manchester - Author: ALAN J. KIDD Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire (Vol. 3.)
  • The First Industrial Revolution: Why it Started in Britain - World Eras(Vol. 9: Industrial Revolution in Europe, 1750-1914. )
• Adoption/ child abandonment in the 1800s /orphanhood
  • Jane Eyre - World Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them(Vol. 4: British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present (1837-). )
• Entailment/ marriage in Victorian England
  • Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England- By Jennifer Phegley
  • Monstrosity, madness, and marriage in Victorian literature: The Brontë novels — Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Religious fervor/ Evangelicals in Victorian England
  • 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -  Encyclopedia of World Biography(Vol. 14. 2nd ed.)
• Servants/ governesses- jobs for women lower classes
  • Jane Eyre: Overview - Edward Chitham, Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.) Gale
  • Jane Eyre (Skip to Section: The Victorian Governess) -Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them(Vol. 2: Civil Wars to Frontier Societies (1800-1880s). )
• Gypsies in Victorian England
  • "Marks of race": gypsy figures and eccentric femininity in nineteenth-century women's writing, Deborah Epstein Nord, Victorian Studies (Vol. 41, Issue 2)
• Female authors/ nom de plume/ publication
  • Feminine Authorship and Spiritual Authority in Victorian Women Writers' Autobiographies - Mary J. Corbett, Women's Studies (Vol. 18)
• Class system in Victorian England
  • Victorian Era Social Class and Structure - Georgian to Edwardian 
• Bankruptcy/ workhouses in Victorian England
  • Overview: Wuthering Heights - Novels for Students (Vol. 45.)
• Mental institutions in Victorian England vs. keeping the mentally ill at home
  •  Jane Eyre (Skip to Section: Treatment of insane) -Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them(Vol. 2: Civil Wars to Frontier Societies (1800-1880s). )
• Railroads and the death of rural areas
  • Mental Disability in Victorian England: the Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901
• Child labor in Victorian England
  • 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -  Encyclopedia of World Biography(Vol. 14. 2nd ed.)

Other Website Resources

• Victorian Era - Georgian to Edwardian 
• Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology