Screen LibraryCharlotte Brontë : legacies and afterlives /
"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...
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Manchester University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Manchester : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century
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| Summary: |
"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. This book brings the story of Charlotte Brontë'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. Taki |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781784992460 (hardback) : 1784992461 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PR4169 |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
| Call Number: | I561.074/C479 |
| Contents: |
Introduction : picturing Charlotte Brontë / Ghostly afterlives : cults, literary tourism and staging the life. The 'Charlotte' cult : writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf / The path out of Haworth : mobility, migration, and the global in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley and the writings of Mary Taylor / Brontë countries : nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels / Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontë's literary afterlives : ch |