The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts
Deborah Wynne editor Amber K Regis editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:31st Dec '24
Should be back in stock very soon
The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered the creative ambitions of four of the nineteenth century’s most provocative novelists, poets and visual artists. In turn, the Brontës now sustain heritage, tourism and creative industries that adapt and disseminate their lives and work, their likenesses and words, across the globe: in books, on a plethora of screens (film, TV, computer and phone), in discarnate audio (radio and podcasts) and embodied on stage. The essays collected here offer the first panoramic and sustained examination of the Brontës’ lives, work and legacies in relation to the visual, musical, plastic and performing arts, tracing their influences and transformations across the lives and cultural afterlives of this extraordinary literary family.
A fresh and richly engaging collection of essays. Brontë enthusiasts will enjoy exploring the family's artistic relationships with the imaginary and material worlds around them. This wide-ranging volume also subjects the Brontës’ artistic afterlives to some fascinating analysis, proving that the Brontës continue to exert a potent influence, from stage to visual art and now digital media. -- Christine Alexander, UNSW Sydney
The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts, edited by Amber K Regis and Deborah Wynne, is a must-read for any Brontë scholar. [...] The scholars in this work offer a breathtakingly well-researched and convincing argument that challenges the Brontë myth of isolation and domesticity in new and fascinating ways. The chapters offer nuanced and detailed specifics that bring this iconic family and their impact on art into new light. [...] This is an exceptional work of genuinely useful and intriguing scholarship that should be on any Brontë expert’s shelf. -- Emily A. Dotson * Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies *
The bulk of this volume impresses, in fact, by its careful but up-to-date scholarship. The fairly generous word allowance has given contributors the opportunity to explore their distinctive topics with both imagination and scholarly discipline, often uncovering something new. [...] Any reader who gains access to the Companion [...] will find it a friend indeed, studded with gems of informative, imaginative and, indeed, ‘surprising’ scholarship. -- Patsy Stoneman * Brontë Studies *
Regis and Wynne have compiled a wide-ranging collection of analytical, celebratory, and revelatory works from scholars across nineteenth-century studies that challenges readers to consider a broad spectrum of arts, media, and literacies to assess the work, influences, and (after)lives of the Brontë sisters, their parents, and their brother Branwell. This companion is vital in recasting a fixture of Victorian literature and nineteenth-century studies as more palimpsestic and fluid, akin to the literature for which the Brontë sisters are so well-known. -- Scott Caddy * Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies *
ISBN: 9781474487610
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496 pages