Charlotte Brontë : legacies and afterlives
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Charlotte Brontë : legacies and afterlives
(Interventions : rethinking the nineteenth century / series editors, Anna Barton, Andrew Smith)
Manchester University Press, 2019
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronte's first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. This book brings the story of Charlotte Bronte's legacy up to date, analysing the intriguing afterlives of characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema, television, the stage and, more recently, on the web. Taking a fresh look at 150 years of engagement with one of the best-loved novelists of the Victorian period, from obituaries to vlogs, from stage to screen, from novels to erotic makeovers, this book reveals the author's diverse and intriguing legacy. Engagingly written and illustrated, the book will appeal to both scholars and general readers. -- .
Table of Contents
- Introduction: picturing Charlotte Bronte - Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne Part I: Ghostly afterlives: cults, literary tourism and staging the life 1 The 'Charlotte' cult: writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf - Deborah Wynne 2 The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration, and the global in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and the writings of Mary Taylor - Jude Piesse 3 Bronte countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels - Charlotte Mathieson 4 Reading the revenant in Charlotte Bronte's literary afterlives: charting the path from the 'silent country' to the seance - Amber Pouliot 5 Charlotte Bronte on stage: 1930s biodrama and the archive/museum performed - Amber K. Regis Part II: Textual legacies: influences and adaptations 6 'Poetry as I comprehend the word': Charlotte Bronte's lyric afterlife - Anna Barton 7 The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war women's writing - Emma Liggins 8 Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette - Benjamin Poore 9 The ethics of appropriation
- or, the 'mere spectre' of Jane Eyre: Emma Tennant's Thornfield Hall, Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair and Gail Jones's Sixty Lights - Alexandra Lewis 10 'The insane Creole': the afterlife of Bertha Mason - Jessica Cox 11 Jane Eyre's transmedia lives - Monika Pietrzak-Franger 12 'Reader, I [shagged/beat/whipped/f****d/rewrote] him': the sexual and financial afterlives of Jane Eyre - Louisa Yates Appendix: Charlotte Bronte's cultural legacy, 1848-2016 - Kimberley Braxton Index -- .
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