@article{oai:teapot.lib.ocha.ac.jp:02000178,
 author = {若槻, 由衣 and WAKATSUKI, Yui},
 journal = {お茶の水女子大学英文学会 研究報告, Journal of the Ochanomizu University English Society},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This essay focuses on the ambiguous representation of books in Emily Brontë’s works. In order to tackle the key question of why books are hated and destroyed by the central characters in Wuthering Heights, I take a phased approach from three perspectives. First, the social and domestic circumstances around books in nineteenth-century England and the Brontë family are overviewed. In not only Emily’s works but also the whole of society at that time, the position of books was unstable and fluid. Then I interpret the examples of books represented in the actual texts of the Brontës. Between Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, there are unmissable similarities in their representations of books, especially in the context in which books are expected to function as family bonds. Finally, I return to the initial question of Emily’s problematical way of representing books, which is conspicuously different from that of the other sisters. Referring to some of her poems as well as her only novel, and also to the Lacanian idea of ‘death drive’, this essay maintains that it reflects her failed attempt to recover her lost beloved and childhood through her own poetic language.},
 pages = {23--40},
 title = {‘Forsake thy books, and mateless play’: Emily Brontë’s Closed Book},
 volume = {10},
 year = {2021}
}