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Informationen zum Autor Amber K. Regis is Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield Deborah Wynne is Professor of English at the University of Chester Klappentext Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë's first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. Zusammenfassung Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: picturing Charlotte Brontë - 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 Wynne2 The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration, and the global in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley and the writings of Mary Taylor - Jude Piesse3 Brontë countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels - Charlotte Mathieson4 Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontë's literary afterlives: charting the path from the 'silent country' to the seance - Amber Pouliot5 Charlotte Brontë 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 Brontë's lyric afterlife - Anna Barton7 The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war women's writing - Emma Liggins8 Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette - Benjamin Poore9 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 Lewis10 'The insane Creole': the afterlife of Bertha Mason - Jessica Cox11 Jane Eyre 's transmedia lives - Monika Pietrzak-Franger12 'Reader, I [shagged/beat/whipped/f****d/rewrote] him': the sexual and financial afterlives of Jane Eyre - Louisa YatesAppendix: Charlotte Brontë's cultural legacy, 1848-2016 - Kimberley BraxtonIndex...
