Charlotte Bront, Embodiment and the Material World [Paperback]

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 Bront?s writingfrom 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 Bront?s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and

drawing), Charlotte Bront?, Embodiment and the Material World forges new

connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the authors

work.

1. Introduction - Eleanor Houghton and Justine Pizzo.- 2. Burying Bertha - Cornelia Pearsall.- 3. Gendering the Comic Body: Physical Humour in Shirley - Justine Pizzo.- 4. Charlotte Bronte and the Yorkshire Marriage - Valerie Sanders.- 5. Catholic Things and the Jesuit Order in Villette - Julie Donovan.- 6. Charlotte Bronte: From a Yorkshire Girl to a Regency Writer and Dandy - Judith E. Pike.- 7. Scholarship and Sentimentality in the Museum Context - Christine Nelson.- 8. Charlotte Bronte's Moccasins: The Wild West Brought Home - Eleanor Houghton.- 9. Charlotte Bronte's Chinese Fac-similes : A Comparative Approach to Interpreting the Materials of Authorial Labour and Artistic Process - Barbara Heritage.- 10. The Materialities of Charlotte Bronte's Medievalism - Claire Broome Saunders.

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