The Count of Monte Cristo | Brontë Borrowings: Charlotte Brontë and Ivanhoe, Emily Brontë and The Count of Monte Cristo
In the following essay, Stowell compares elements of The Count of Monte Cristo to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and speculates on how the former may have influenced the latter.
Since few of Emily Brontë’s private papers survived her death in 1848, whilst those close to Charlotte preserved whatever they could of her written material when she died, there is a huge imbalance of evidence for the reading preferences of the two writers. Literary influences on Charlotte are therefore easy to confirm; those on Emily far less so. Moreover, the novel-styles of the two are very different: Charlotte’s prose is full of allusion and quotation (whether acknowledged or unacknowledged), her imagery often derived from her own favourite books; the prose in Wuthering...
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