http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/charlotte-bronte Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:15:10 -0400 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:15:10 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/885/jane-eyre-as-a-female-gothic-novel By Aparna Srivastava - Charlotte Brontë invests gothic elements in Jane Eyre with a symbolic meaning to create a new, ‘female’ language. It is through this female Gothic language that Brontë creates a heroine whose autobiographical mode of writing is used to trace a story of female rebellion and search for identity. Although the use of gothic as the new ‘female’ language is a subversion of the predominant phallocentric language of the time, the need for a woman writer to make her assertions through the gothic, the symbolic and therefore the indirect implies that this new female gothic... Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:08 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/885/jane-eyre-as-a-female-gothic-novel http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/714/echoes-in-gothic-romance-stylistic-similarities-between-jane-eyre-and-rebecca By Stephanie S. Haddad - When Daphne DuMaurier's acclaimed Gothic romance novel Rebecca debuted in 1938, it was devoured by the female readers of its day. Ultimately, however, criticisms of DuMaurier's most famous novel were quick to point out its irrefutable resemblance to another Gothic romance novel written nearly 100 years prior: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). Whether it was intentional or not, DuMaurier never commented on the novels' similarities, but the evidence speaks for itself, extending far beyond heroines and plotlines.Today, the two classics are still read and discussed in modern literature classrooms... Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:28 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/714/echoes-in-gothic-romance-stylistic-similarities-between-jane-eyre-and-rebecca