Successful Novel Must Be in Want of a Sequel

M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo’s work has appeared in Ad Americam, Contemporary Legend, Americana, Clepsydra, RAEI, The Grove, and NeoAmericanist, among other publications. She currently teaches at UNED, Universidad Isabel I and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Madrid, Spain).

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Once or Twice Upon a TimeChapter 1. Dear Elinor, Dear Marianne: ­Letter-Writing, Marriage Prospects and Women’s Roles in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Elinor and Marianne by Emma TennantChapter 2. Looking for Mr. Right Darcy: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Its Multiple RewritingsChapter 3. The Madwoman in the Attic and Other Family Secrets: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The French Dancer’s Bastard by Emma TennantChapter 4. Beyond Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Windward Heights by Maryse Condé and Heathcliff: The Return to Wuthering Heights by Lin ­Haire-SargeantChapter 5. “In a Land Where Inequity Is Searched Out, and Punished in the Sight of Rulers and People”: Adultery, Religion and Women’s Roles in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Updike’s “The Scarlet Letter Trilogy”Chapter 6. The Proud Father of Four Little Women: Womanhood, Patriarchy and the Civil War in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and March by Geraldine BrooksChapter 7. Last Night I Dreamt I Saw Rebecca Again: Lesbianism, Female Sexuality and Motherhood in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Mrs. de Winter by Susan Hill and Rebecca’s Tale by Sally BeaumanConclusion: The End?Chapter NotesBibliographyIndex