"Through brief overviews within each article situating its focus within scholarly, historical, cultural, literary, and/ or thematic contexts, and more sustained analysis of the given topic, including close readings, this companion provides a rewarding blend of insights for a range of readers and scholars."
―Susan B. Taylor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Summer 2018 issue of Victorian Studies (60.4)
"An excellent interdisciplinary collection which offers new perspectives on the Brontes."
―Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
From the Inside Flap
A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. With in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world, this book explores the interaction between the family members and the wider world, as well as the ethical, religious, economic, political, legal, philosophical, and aesthetic influences on their work.
The volume incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies, all of which have much to offer in studying this prolific family. Contributors address a diverse range of topics, such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches to their work, and key issues of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform. Filled with critical new scholarship that re-evaluates the life and work of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne, as well as Branwell and Patrick Brontë, this is an essential resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature.
From the Back Cover
A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. With in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world, this book explores the interaction between the family members and the wider world, as well as the ethical, religious, economic, political, legal, philosophical, and aesthetic influences on their work.
The volume incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies, all of which have much to offer in studying this prolific family. Contributors address a diverse range of topics, such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches to their work, and key issues of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform. Filled with critical new scholarship that re-evaluates the life and work of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne, as well as Branwell and Patrick Brontë, this is an essential resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature.
About the Author
Diane Long Hoeveler is Emerita Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is author most recently of the award-winning books The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1770–1870 (2014), and Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 (2010). She is author, co-author or editor of over a dozen scholarly and reference books, and some 65 articles on a variety of literary topics.
Deborah Denenholz Morse is the Vera W. Barkley Term Professor of English, inaugural Fellow of the Center for the Liberal Arts, and Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar at The College of William and Mary. She is author most recently of Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (2013) as well as author and editor of a number of other books. She has published extensively on all three Brontë sisters, and on other women writers from the Victorian era to the present day.
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