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A Companion to the Bronts brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Bront 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

From the rear cover

A Companion to the Bront�s brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Bront� family. With in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world, this book explores the interaction between the family members and the wider world, as well as the ethical, religious, economic, political, legal, philosophical, and aesthetic influences on their work.

The volume incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies, all of which have much to offer in studying this prolific family. Contributors address a diverse range of topics, such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches to their work, and key issues of the day - from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform. Filled with critical new scholarship that re-evaluates the life and work of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne, as well as Branwell and Patrick Bront�, this is an essential resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature.

Details

Title A Companion to the Brontes (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Author Diane Long Hoeveler
Binding Hardcover
Pages 632
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2016
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9781118404942
Themes
- Cultural Region: British

About the author

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 Bront sisters, and on other women writers from the Victorian era to the present day.