Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Your search for information on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on Charlotte Bronte and her novel Jane Eyre. Books can provide a broad overview of a topic or in-depth information. You can search for books by Author, Title, Subject, or Keyword.

To find books by Charlotte Bronte, search by Author.

To find books about Bronte, search by Subject.

Always type the last name first, e.g. Bronte, Charlotte.

The following books may be useful in your research.

Biographical Sources

British Writers

REF PR85 .B688 (Retro Sup 1)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

REF PR19 .O95 2006 (Volume 1)

Critical Sources

Classic Love and Romance Literature

REF PN56 .L6 B73 1999

Cyclopedia of Literary Characters

REF PN44 .M3 1998

Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion

REF PN471 .F43 2005

Gothic Literature

REF PR408 .G68 G675 2006

Literature and Its Times

REF PN50 .L574 1997 (Volume 2)

19th Century Literature Criticism

REF PN761 .N56

Novels for Students

REF PN3385 .N65 (Volume 4)

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

REF PR19 .O94 2000

The Oxford Companion to the Brontes

REF PR4167 .A3 094 2003

Books You Can Check Out

The Accents of Persuasion; Charlotte Brontče's Novels

North Stacks PR4169 .M3 1966

The Brontčes

North Stacks PR4168 .B37 1995

The Brontčes: Charlotte Brontče and Her Family
North Stacks PR4168 .F73 1988

The Brontčes' Secret

North Stacks PR4168 .M3813 1970

The Brontčes, the Critical Heritage

North Stacks PR4168 .A7 1974

Charlotte Brontče: Style in the Novel

North Stacks PR4169 .P4

Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

North Stacks PR4167 .J33 C4

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

North Stacks PR4167 .J5 B55 1996

Unquiet Soul: A Biography of Charlotte Brontče

North Stacks PR4168 .P38

Journal Articles

Journal and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic.

To find articles on your topic, use one of the online databases listed below. These databases usually provide full-text articles on almost every topic.

GaleNet - Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Virtual Reference Library

EBSCOhost - Literary Reference Center, MasterFILE Premier

Project Muse

For remote access to the library databases, login via MyLibrary.

For historical research, the Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1975.

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

The Bronte Parsonage Museum and Bronte Society

This site contains information about the lives and novels of the Bronte family.

The Victorian Web

Searchable interdisciplinary site covering the Victorian era.

Lit Links – Charlotte Bronte

Includes biographical information about Charlotte Bronte and her sisters, as well as scholarly articles.

Gender Inn

Women and Gender Studies online database - contains mostly essays and information from

monographs.

CS, BK 09/07 ; Rev BK 02/08

Web Author: Lorraine Gersitz (lgersitz@cerritos.edu)
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