The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Charlotte Bronte

  • Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Unrequited Passion

    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!…

  • Madwomen in Attics and the Academy

    I was intrigued to see that York University is creating a new Mad Studies hub. I’m hoping that this will take a disability studies “nothing about us, without us” (Tom Shakespeare) approach. But I worry because of what Shakespeare and Eva Feder Kittay, among many others, have described. People who have intellectual/cognitive and mental/psychiatric disabilities…

  • Charlotte Brontë and Crime Fiction

    I’ll be teaching Jane Eyre in a few weeks, so I just went hunting for my old notes from studying, writing about, and–so I thought–teaching the novel. I had a distinct recollection of teaching it once, when I covered for a Victorian fiction professor who was on leave. I took over in late January, and…