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Charlotte Bronte Amber Regis

Charlotte Bronte By Amber Regis

Charlotte Bronte by Amber Regis


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Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontes life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontes first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts.

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Charlotte Bronte: Legacies and Afterlives by Amber Regis

Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontes life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Brontes 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 Brontes 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 authors diverse and intriguing legacy. Engagingly written and illustrated, the book will appeal to both scholars and general readers.

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To remind oneself of just how provisional even the most "definitive" treatments of Bronte's life and work inevitably turn out to be, you have only to turn to Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives, edited by Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne. Here you will find an account of the dizzyingly varied ways in which scholars and creative practitioners have metabolized Bronte's work in the decades since her death before returning it to the world, transformed.
Kathryn Hughes, TLS January 2018

The book begins with a scrupulous and detailed account of actual and conjectural pictures of Bronte I cannot think of another artist whose appearance has received so much attention. What is the difference between the continuing life of works of art and the continuing life of an artist? What difference does it make to that continuing life when the artist is a woman? Most of the essays in part 1 focus on the afterlife part of this collection, and are thoughtful, scholarly, and consistently attentive to what it now means to study a Victorian cult writer in relation to the history of her reception and to contemporary concerns.
Janet Gezari, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Volume 61, Number 1, Autumn 2018

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About Amber Regis

Amber K. Regis is Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield

Deborah Wynne is Professor of English at the University of Chester

Table of Contents

Introduction: picturing Charlotte Bronte Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne
Part I: Ghostly afterlives: cults, literary tourism and staging the life
1 The Charlotte cult: writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf Deborah Wynne
2 The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration, and the global in Charlotte Brontes Shirley and the writings of Mary Taylor Jude Piesse
3 Bronte countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels Charlotte Mathieson
4 Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontes literary afterlives: charting the path from the silent country to the seance Amber Pouliot
5 Charlotte Bronte on stage: 1930s biodrama and the archive/museum performed Amber K. Regis
Part II: Textual legacies: influences and adaptations
6 Poetry as I comprehend the word: Charlotte Brontes lyric afterlife Anna Barton
7 The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war womens writing Emma Liggins
8 Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette Benjamin Poore
9 The ethics of appropriation; or, the mere spectre of Jane Eyre: Emma Tennants Thornfield Hall, Jasper Ffordes The Eyre Affair and Gail Joness Sixty Lights Alexandra Lewis
10 The insane Creole: the afterlife of Bertha Mason Jessica Cox
11 Jane Eyres transmedia lives Monika Pietrzak-Franger
12 Reader, I [shagged/beat/whipped/f****d/rewrote] him: the sexual and financial afterlives of Jane Eyre Louisa Yates
Appendix: Charlotte Bronte's cultural legacy, 18482016 Kimberley Braxton
Index

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GOR013588518
9781526139481
1526139480
Charlotte Bronte: Legacies and Afterlives by Amber Regis
Used - Like New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2019-05-16
320
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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