Time, Space, and Place in Charlotte Bront}} [Hardcover]

Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place, this collection examines Charlotte Bront? in relationship to her own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes up the literal and metaphorical spaces of her literary output, and sheds light on place as both a psychic and geographical phenomenon in her novels and their adaptations. Foregrounding both a historical and a broad cultural approach, the contributors also follow the evolution of Bront?'s literary reputation in essays that place her work in conversation with authors such as Samuel Richardson, Walter Scott, and George Sand and offer insights into the cultural and critical contexts that influenced her status as a canonical writer. Taken together, the essays in this volume reflect the resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in Charlotte Bront? and the robust expansion of Bront? studies that is currently under way.

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Introduction: time, space(s), and place(s) in Charlotte Bront? DIANE LONG HOEVELER AND DEBORAH DENENHOLZ MORSE

PART I: Time

1 Charlotte Bront?s renderings of time JULIE DONOVAN

2 Charlotte Bront? and her critics: the case of Shirley HERBERT ROSENGARTEN

3 The 1916 centenary: Charlotte Bront? and first-wave feminism ALEXIS EASLEY

4 Charlotte Bront?s neo-Victorian character(s) SARAH E. MAIER

PART II: Literary space(s)

5 Charlotte Bront? and the anxious imagination DIANE LONG HOEVELER

6 The place of Pamela in Jane Eyre BETH LAU

7 A more than masculine courage : idealism and social protest in Indiana and Jane Eyre CLOE LE GALL-SCOVILLE AND KARI LOKKE

8 Charlotte Bront?s Jane Eyre and the personal politics of space CAROL SENF

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