The Brontës in the World of the Arts
The Brontës in the World of the Arts

Author: Sandra Hagan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1351893505

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Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' relationship to the wider world of the arts, including their relationship to the visual arts. The contributors examine the siblings' artistic ambitions, productions, and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms. Also considered are re-envisionings of the Brontës' works, with an emphasis on those created in the artistic media the siblings themselves knew or practiced. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.

The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds
The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds

Author: S. Qi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1137405155

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Looking at the works of the Brontë sisters through a translingual, transnational, and transcultural lens, this collection is the first book-length study of the Brontës as received and reimagined in languages and cultures outside of Europe and the United States.

The Bronte Myth
The Bronte Myth

Author: Lucasta Miller

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0307428206

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In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism, and history, The Bronté Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronté became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras. When literary London learned that Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights had been written by young rural spinsters, the Brontés instantly became as famous as their shockingly passionate books. Soon after their deaths, their first biographer spun the sisters into a picturesque myth of family tragedies and Yorkshire moors. Ever since, these enigmatic figures have tempted generations of readers–Victorian, Freudian, feminist–to reinterpret them, casting them as everything from domestic saints to sex-starved hysterics. In her bewitching “metabiography,” Lucasta Miller follows the twists and turns of the phenomenon of Bront-mania and rescues these three fiercely original geniuses from the distortions of legend.

Brontë Transformations
Brontë Transformations

Author: Patsy Stoneman

Publisher: Studies in Literature and Culture

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781911454342

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This work considers the ways in which two famous Brontë novels. 'Jane Eyre' (1847) and 'Wuthering Heights' (1847), have passed into the general culture, including stage, film and television versions, book illustrations, comic books and paintings, operatic, ballet and musical versions, parodies, allusion, all kinds of incidental references, and also later 're-workings' of the original plot. It offers analyses of the various texts in terms of their historical and generic construction, aiming to relate the form of each derivative to its ideological function. (First published in 1996.).

The Brontes
The Brontes

Author: Patricia Ingham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1317881621

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The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.

English Writers
English Writers

Author: B. A. Sheen

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9781590332603

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English Writers - A Bibliography with Vignettes

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13: 9780198185987

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In this volume we share Charlotte Bronte's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Bronte in September andEmily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers-especially George Smith-with MrsGaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.

Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings
Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings

Author: Judith E. Pike

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1317168151

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Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century's literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer's mind. As the contributors show, Brontë's authorship took shape among the pages of her juvenilia, as figures from Brontë's childhood experience of the world such as Wellington and Napoleon transmuted to her fictional pages, while her siblings' works and worlds both overlapped with and extended beyond her own.