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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family.* 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 Zusammenfassung A Companion to the Brontes brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Bronte family. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Deborah Denenholz Morse and Diane Long Hoeveler Part I Imaginative Forms and Literary/Critical Contexts 9 1 Experimentation and the Early Writings 11 Christine Alexander 2 The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition 31 Diane Long Hoeveler 3 The Critical Recuperation of and Theoretical Approaches to the Brontës 49 Lisa Jadwin 4 Journeying Home: Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw's Coming?]of?]Age Stories 65 Amy J. Robinson Part II Texts 79 5 Wuthering Heights 81 Louise Lee 6 Jane Eyre 101 Margaret Markwick 7 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 115 Kari Lokke 8 Agnes Grey 135 Judith E. Pike 9 Charlotte Brontë's The Professor 151 Tabitha Sparks 10 Charlotte Brontë's Shirley 167 Herbert Rosengarten 11 Villette 183 Penny Boumelha 12 Poetry, Campaigning Articles, and Letters by Patrick Brontë 197 Dudley Green 13 The Poetry and Verse Drama of Branwell Brontë 213 Julie Donovan 14 Poetry of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily 229 John Maynard 15 The Artwork of the Brontës 249 Nancy V. Workman 16 The Letters and Brussels Essays 265 Karen E. Laird Part III Reception Studies 283 17 The Brontës and the Periodicals of the 1820s and 1830s 285 Lucasta Miller 18 The Brontës and the Victorian Reading Public, 1846-1860 303 Alexis Easley Part IV Historical, Intellectual, and Cultural Contexts 319 19 The Temptations of a Daughterless Mother: Jane Eyre and the Feminist/Postcolonial Dilemma 321 Ken Hiltner 20 Race, Slavery, and the Slave Trade 339 Beverly Taylor 21 Marriage and Divorce in the Novels 355 Beth Lau 2...
