Pizzo / Houghton Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-34855-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history,literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volumeaddresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels ( TheProfessor ,  Jane Eyre ,  Shirley  and  Villette ) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and “Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences thatshaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and drawing),  Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World  forges new connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’swork.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pizzo, Justine

Houghton, Eleanor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction - Eleanor Houghton and Justine Pizzo.- 2. Burying Bertha - Cornelia Pearsall.- 3. Gendering the Comic Body: Physical Humour in Shirley  - Justine Pizzo.- 4. Charlotte Bronte and the "Yorkshire Marriage" - Valerie Sanders.- 5. Catholic Things and the Jesuit Order in Villette - Julie Donovan.- 6. Charlotte Bronte: From a Yorkshire Girl to a Regency Writer and Dandy - Judith E. Pike.- 7. Scholarship and Sentimentality in the Museum Context - Christine Nelson.- 8. Charlotte Bronte's Moccasins: The Wild West Brought Home - Eleanor Houghton.- 9. Charlotte Bronte's "Chinese Fac-similes": A Comparative Approach to Interpreting the Materials of Authorial Labour and Artistic Process - Barbara Heritage.- 10. The Materialities of Charlotte Bronte's Medievalism - Claire Broome Saunders.

Über Autor(innen)

Justine Pizzo is a Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, UK. Her book project, provisionally titled “ The Character of Climate: Woman and Atmospherein Victorian Fiction ,” examines how aerial climates shape female characterization in mid-nineteenth and early twentieth-century novels. Her essays on Charlotte Brontë have appeared in  PMLA  and in a volume on  Climate and Literature  (ed. Johns-Putra, 2019) published by Cambridge University Press.  Eleanor Houghton read English at the University of Oxford, UK, before being awarded a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK. She has recently completed her doctoral thesis “Charlotte Brontë, ‘Plainness’ and the Language of Dress” and works as costume consultant and historical advisor for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, UK, and the BBC.