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Overview
- Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence
- Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world
- Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform
- Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118405475 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 04/04/2016 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 640 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Deborah Denenholz Morse and Diane Long Hoeveler
Part I Imaginative Forms and Literary/Critical Contexts 9
1 Experimentation and the Early Writings 11Christine Alexander
2 The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition 31Diane Long Hoeveler
3 The Critical Recuperation of and Theoretical Approaches to the Brontës 49Lisa Jadwin
4 Journeying Home: Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw’s Coming-of-Age Stories 65Amy J. Robinson
Part II Texts 79
5 Wuthering Heights 81Louise Lee
6 Jane Eyre 101Margaret Markwick
7 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 115Kari Lokke
8 Agnes Grey 135Judith E. Pike
9 Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor 151Tabitha Sparks
10 Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley 167Herbert Rosengarten
11 Villette 183Penny Boumelha
12 Poetry, Campaigning Articles, and Letters by Patrick Brontë 197Dudley Green
13 The Poetry and Verse Drama of Branwell Brontë 213Julie Donovan
14 Poetry of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily 229John Maynard
15 The Artwork of the Brontës 249Nancy V. Workman
16 The Letters and Brussels Essays 265Karen E. Laird
Part III Reception Studies 283
17 The Brontës and the Periodicals of the 1820s and 1830s 285Lucasta Miller
18 The Brontës and the Victorian Reading Public, 1846–1860 303Alexis Easley
Part IV Historical, Intellectual, and Cultural Contexts 319
19 The Temptations of a Daughterless Mother: Jane Eyre and the Feminist/Postcolonial Dilemma 321Ken Hiltner
20 Race, Slavery, and the Slave Trade 339Beverly Taylor
21 Marriage and Divorce in the Novels 355Beth Lau
22 Physical and Mental Health in the Brontës’ Lives and Works 369Carol A. Senf
23 The Brontës and the Death Question 385Carol Margaret Davison
24 The Irish Heritage of the Brontës 403Edward Chitham
25 The Intellectual and Philosophical Contexts 417Elisha Cohn
26 The Religion(s) of the Brontës 433Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
27 Reading the Arts in the Brontë Fiction 453Judith Wilt
28 Politics, Legal Concerns, and Reforms 471Simon Avery
29 Class and Gender in the Brontë Novels 485Tara MacDonald
Part V Afterlives of the Brontës 501
30 Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and Their Filmic Adaptations 503Tom Winnifrith
31 Mixed Signals: Narrative Fidelity, Female Speech, and Masculine Spectacle in Adapting the Brontë Novels as Films 513Brandon Chitwood
32 Brontë Hauntings: Literary Works from Modernism to the Present 529Deborah Denenholz Morse
33 The Brontë Family in Popular Culture 547Abigail Burnham Bloom
34 The Brontë Parsonage Museum, the Brontë Society, and the Preservation of Brontëana 565Ann Dinsdale
35 Biographical Myths and Legends of the Brontës 579Sarah E. Maier
Index 593
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"An excellent interdisciplinary collection which offers new perspectives on the Brontes." Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford