Time, space, and place in Charlotte Brontë

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Time, space, and place in Charlotte Brontë

edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Deborah Denenholz Morse

Routledge, 2017

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Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place, this collection examines Charlotte Bronte in relationship to her own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes up the literal and metaphorical spaces of her literary output, and sheds light on place as both a psychic and geographical phenomenon in her novels and their adaptations. Foregrounding both a historical and a broad cultural approach, the contributors also follow the evolution of Bronte's literary reputation in essays that place her work in conversation with authors such as Samuel Richardson, Walter Scott, and George Sand and offer insights into the cultural and critical contexts that influenced her status as a canonical writer. Taken together, the essays in this volume reflect the resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in Charlotte Bronte and the robust expansion of Bronte studies that is currently under way.

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List of illustrations Notes on contributors Introduction: time, space(s), and place(s) in Charlotte Bronte DIANE LONG HOEVELER AND DEBORAH DENENHOLZ MORSE PART I: Time 1 Charlotte Bronte's renderings of time JULIE DONOVAN 2 Charlotte Bronte and her critics: the case of Shirley HERBERT ROSENGARTEN 3 The 1916 centenary: Charlotte Bronte and first-wave feminism ALEXIS EASLEY 4 Charlotte Bronte's neo-Victorian character(s) SARAH E. MAIER PART II: Literary space(s) 5 Charlotte Bronte and the anxious imagination DIANE LONG HOEVELER 6 The place of Pamela in Jane Eyre BETH LAU 7 "A more than masculine courage": idealism and social protest in Indiana and Jane Eyre CLOE LE GALL-SCOVILLE AND KARI LOKKE 8 Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and the personal politics of space CAROL SENF PART III: Place(s) 9 The forest dell, the attic, and the moorland: animal places in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre DEBORAH DENENHOLZ MORSE 10 "How English is Lucy Snowe"?: pink frocks and a French clock in Jane Eyre and Villette JUDITH E. PIKE 11 Brontean reveries of spaces and places: walking in Villette LUCY MORRISON 12 The "last home": death in the works of Charlotte Bronte CAROL MARGARET DAVISON Index

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