Charlotte and Emily Bronte: A Narrative Analysis of ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’

Two women whose lives ran along exceptionally parallel lines – two works that could hardly be more different. Their lives have often been compared but Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights have never been the object of a systematic comparative reading based on modern narrative theory. This study offers for the first time a combination of two The concepts of recent narrative theories are applied to a comparative reading of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights . Particular emphasis will be given to the narrative devices employed by the two sisters with regard to text, story and narration in each novel.