The Bront�es in context /
Very few families produce one outstanding writer. The Bront�e family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them. The forty-two new essays in this book tell the...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Haworth in the time of the Bront�es / Michael Baumber
- Domestic life at Haworth Parsonage / Ann DInsdale
- Locations in northern England associated with the Bront�es lives and works / Ann Dinsdale
- The father of the Bront�es / Dudley Green
- A mother and her substitutes: Maria Bront�e (n�ee Branwell), Elizabeth Branwell and Margaret Wooler / Bob Duckett
- Patrick Branwell Bront�e / Victor A. Neufeldt
- Charlotte Bront�e / Dinah Birch
- Emily Bront�e / Lyn Pykett
- Anne Bront�e / Maria Frawley
- Friends, servants and a husband / Stephen Whitehead
- The Bront�es sibling bonds / Drew Lamonica Arms
- Juvenilia / Christine Alexander
- The Brussels experience / Sue Lonoff
- The Bront�e correspondence / Margaret Smith
- Portraits of the Bront�es / Jane Sellars
- The poetry of the Bront�es / Janet Gezari
- Literary influences on the Bront�es / Sara J. Lodge
- The Bront�es way into print / Linda H. Peterson
- Reading the Bront�es : Their first audiences / Stephen Colclough
- Bront�e biography : a survey of a genre / Tom Winnifrith
- Mid-nineteenth-century critical responses to the Bront�es / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
- Bront�e scholarship and criticism, 1920-1970 / Herbert Rosengarten
- Bront�e scholarship and criticism, c. 1970-2000 / Sara J. Lodge
- Current trends in Bront�e criticism and scholarship / Alexandra Lewis
- Adaptations, prequels, sequels, translations / Patsy Stoneman
- Religion / David Jasper
- The philosophical-intellectual context / Stephen Prickett
- Education / Dinah Birch
- Art and music / Cristine Alexander
- Natural history / Barbara T. Gates
- Politics / Simon Avery
- Newspapers and magazines / Joanne Shattock
- Agriculture and industry / Marianne Thorm�ahlen with Steven Wood
- Transport and travel / Edward Chitham
- Law / Ian Ward
- Class / Elizabeth Langland
- Careers for middle-class women / Elizabeth Langland
- Marriage and family life / Marianne Thorm�ahlen
- Dress / Birgitta Berflund
- Sexuality / Jill L. Matus
- Physical health / Janis McLarren Caldwell
- Mental health / Janis McLarren Caldwell