Jessica Campbell holds a PhD from the University of Washington and has published numerous journal articles on Victorian literature and on fairy tales. She has taught literature, writing, and film at McKendree University and at the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Ever since Vladimir Nabokov told us that all great novels are fairy tales, we have started taking seriously the connection between oral storytelling cultures and imaginative print literature. Jessica Campbell brilliantly reveals how the Brontes mined rich veins of lore, local and global, in ways that have gone undetected in previous scholarly works. Whether engaged in disruptive moves that upended the plots and structures of fairy tales or in unconscious appropriations of tropes and themes, the Brontes renewed the energy of wisdom from times past while crafting their own story worlds. - Maria Tatar, author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales and editor of The Classic Fairy Tales Thorough, learned, and engaging, The Brontes and the Fairy Tale unites new developments in Victorian studies and fairy-tale studies to rejuvenate our understanding of the family's engagement with this narrative form. Bronte scholars in particular will rejoice at the extensive treatment of Anne and Branwell and the thorough and illuminating examination of the juvenilia. - Shawna Ross, author of Charlotte Bronte at the Anthropocene It was a huge pleasure to read The Brontes and the Fairy Tale. Jessica Campbell shows herself to be scholarly, intellectually curious, and incisive about the works she discusses. She's written a thoughtful and engaging critical book, a very useful and welcome contribution to scholarship. - Michael Newton, Leiden University, editor of Victorian Fairy Tales [A] delightful and rewarding study. . . . well worth reading. Any admirer of the Brontes . . . will find plenty of Brontean magic on offer. - Lydia Craig (Bronte Studies)