Charlotte Brontė : legacies and afterlives /
edited by Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations
- Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: picturing Charlotte Brontė; Part I Ghostly afterlives: cults, literary tourism and staging the life; 1 The 'Charlotte' cult: writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf ; Gaskell's 'wild little maiden from Haworth'; Charlotte's ghost, grave and things; Woolf in Haworth; Charlotte's afterlife in Haworth; Notes; References; 2 The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration and the global in Charlotte Brontė's Shirley ... Shirley's 'furrin' parts''Wandering alone in strange countries': women on the move; What Rose did next: the writings of Mary Taylor; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Brontė countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels ; Brontė myths; Literary tourists in Brussels; Notes; References; 4 Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontė's literary afterlives: charting the path from the 'silent country' ... ; 'Unquiet souls!' The Brontės in poetic proto-fiction; Suffused with the supernatural: Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontė From silent sleepers to speaking spectresNotes; References; 5 Charlotte Brontė on stage: 1930s biodrama and the archive/museum performed ; Relics and remains: museum, biography and edition; Archival contingencies: Alfred Sangster's The Brontės (1932); Curatorial contingencies: Rachel Ferguson's Charlotte Brontė (1933); 'They and I belong to the immortals.'; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Part II Textual legacies: influences and adaptations; 6 'Poetry, as I comprehend the word': Charlotte Brontė's lyric afterlife ; Lyrics and old ballads in The Professor and Jane Eyre. The quiet poet in ShirleyConclusion: lyrics and old ballads in Jane Eyre II; Note; References; 7 The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war women's writing ; The Brontė myth and mid-Victorian reticence; Victorian spinsterhood and changing perceptions of women's work; Rebelling against the Victorian family: the spinster heroines of May Sinclair and Winifred Holtby; Notes; References; 8 Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette ; 'Hunger, rebellion, and rage'; 'Old and new acquaintance': Villette as always already adapted. Spying and surveillance in VilletteThe Pensionnat Beck and education; Paul Emanuel; Voicing Lucy Snowe; 'There is enough said': the ending of Villette; Conclusion; Notes; References; 9 The ethics of appropriation; or, the 'mere spectre' of Jane Eyre ... ; Respect or retaliation, nostalgia or theft: accessibility, unresolved tensions ... ; Complicated layers of re-vision: the presence of Wide Sargasso Sea; 'Worn to nothing'? Depletion, originality and the 'mere spectre' of Jane Eyre; Doing a similar plot in different voices: secrets, marginalisation and multiplicity.
"Charlotte Brontė: Legacies and Afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontė's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontė'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 Brontė'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."--
9781526119841 9781526128317
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century