Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World (eBook, PDF)
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Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history,
literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volume
addresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her
teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels ( The
Professor , Jane Eyre , Shirley and Villette ) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and
“Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences that
shaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and
drawing), Charlotte…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history,

literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volume

addresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her

teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels (The

Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and

“Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences that

shaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and

drawing), Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World forges new

connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’s

work.

Autorenporträt
Justine Pizzo is a Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, UK. Her book

project, provisionally titled “The Character of Climate: Woman and Atmosphere

in Victorian Fiction,” examines how aerial climates shape female characterization

in mid-nineteenth and early twentieth-century novels. Her essays on Charlotte

Brontë have appeared in PMLA and in a volume on Climate and Literature (ed. Johns-Putra,

2019) published by Cambridge University Press.

Eleanor Houghton read English at the University of Oxford, UK, before being awarded a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK. She has recently completed her doctoral thesis “Charlotte Brontë, ‘Plainness’ and the Language of Dress” and works as costume consultant and historical advisor for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, UK, and the BBC.