Overview
The Bronte family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered the creative ambitions of four of the nineteenth century's most provocative novelists, poets and visual artists. In turn, the Brontes now sustain heritage, tourism and creative industries that adapt and disseminate their lives and work, their likenesses and words, across the globe: in books, on a plethora of screens (film, TV, computer and phone), in discarnate audio (radio and podcasts) and embodied on stage. The essays collected here offer the first panoramic and sustained examination of the Brontes' lives, work and legacies in relation to the visual, musical, plastic and performing arts, tracing their influences and transformations across the lives and cultural afterlives of this extraordinary literary family.
Full Product Details
Author: Amber K. Regis ,
Deborah Wynne
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474487610
ISBN 10: 1474487610
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 31 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A fresh and richly engaging collection of essays. Bront� enthusiasts will enjoy exploring the family's artistic relationships with the imaginary and material worlds around them. This wide-ranging volume also subjects the Bront�s' artistic afterlives to some fascinating analysis, proving that the Bront�s continue to exert a potent influence, from stage to visual art and now digital media.--Christine Alexander, UNSW Sydney
A fresh and richly engaging collection of essays. Brontë enthusiasts will enjoy exploring the family's artistic relationships with the imaginary and material worlds around them. This wide-ranging volume also subjects the Brontës' artistic afterlives to some fascinating analysis, proving that the Brontës continue to exert a potent influence, from stage to visual art and now digital media.--Christine Alexander, UNSW Sydney
Author Information
Amber K. Regis is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her previous work includes a critical edition of John Addington Symonds's Memoirs (2016) and various essays on life-writing, portraits, prefaces, Taylor Swift and grief. She is co-editor with Deborah Wynne of Charlotte Brontë Legacies and Afterlives (2017), to which she contributed a chapter on Brontë biodrama. Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester, UK. Her research focuses on Victorian writers and material culture. She is the author of The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine (2001) and Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel (2010). She has more recently published articles and book chapters on Charlotte Brontë and has co-edited with Amber K. Regis, Charlotte Brontë Legacies and Afterlives (2017), and with Louisa Yates, Victorian Material Culture: Manufactured Things (2022).
