The Bront�in the World of the Arts

Herausgeber: Hagan, Sandra; Wells, Juliette

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents research on the Brontes' relationship to the wider world of the arts, including their relationship to the visual arts. This title examines the siblings' artistic ambitions, productions, and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms.

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This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' intense and varied relationship to the wider world of the arts. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780754657521
• ISBN-10: 0754657523
• Artikelnr.: 41238098

Autorenporträt

Sandra Hagan is Professor of English at Vancouver Island University, Canada. Juliette Wells is Assistant Professor of English at Manhattanville College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Juliette Wells and Sandra Hagan; Educating 'the
artist's eye': Charlotte BrontÃ' and the pictorial image, Christine
Alexander; Out of the picture?: Branwell BrontÃ' and Jane Eyre, Richard J.
Dunn; Anne BrontÃ''s aesthetics: painting in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,
Antonia Losano; 'Some of your accomplishments are not ordinary': the limits
of artistry in Jane Eyre, Juliette Wells; The hieroglyphics of Catherine:
Emily BrontÃ' and the musical matrix, Meg Harris Williams; Shirley's window
on a musical society in transition, Juliette Wells with Ruth A Solie; It
'might gift me with a world of delight': Charlotte BrontÃ' and the
pleasures of acting, Anne W. Jackson; 'In this same gown of shadow':
functions of fashion in Villette, Sara T. Bernstein; An uneasy marriage:
Edmund Dulac, Lucy Snowe, and the illustration of Villette, Sandra Hagan;
Jane Eyre's Other: the emergence of Bertha, Patsy Stoneman; Music of the
moors: the voices of Emily BrontÃ' and Cathy in song and opera, Linda
Lister; Bibliography; Index.