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1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century
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Interventions: rethinking the nineteenth century.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: picturing Charlotte Brontë; Part I Ghostly afterlives: cults, literary tourism and staging the life; 1 The 'Charlotte' cult: writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf ; Gaskell's 'wild little maiden from Haworth'; Charlotte's ghost, grave and things; Woolf in Haworth; Charlotte's afterlife in Haworth; Notes; References; 2 The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration and the global in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley ... |
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Shirley's 'furrin' parts''Wandering alone in strange countries': women on the move; What Rose did next: the writings of Mary Taylor; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Brontë countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels ; Brontë myths; Literary tourists in Brussels; Notes; References; 4 Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontë's literary afterlives: charting the path from the 'silent country' ... ; 'Unquiet souls!' The Brontës in poetic proto-fiction; Suffused with the supernatural: Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë |
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From silent sleepers to speaking spectresNotes; References; 5 Charlotte Brontë on stage: 1930s biodrama and the archive/museum performed ; Relics and remains: museum, biography and edition; Archival contingencies: Alfred Sangster's The Brontës (1932); Curatorial contingencies: Rachel Ferguson's Charlotte Brontë (1933); 'They and I belong to the immortals.'; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Part II Textual legacies: influences and adaptations; 6 'Poetry, as I comprehend the word': Charlotte Brontë's lyric afterlife ; Lyrics and old ballads in The Professor and Jane Eyre. |
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The quiet poet in ShirleyConclusion: lyrics and old ballads in Jane Eyre II; Note; References; 7 The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war women's writing ; The Brontë myth and mid-Victorian reticence; Victorian spinsterhood and changing perceptions of women's work; Rebelling against the Victorian family: the spinster heroines of May Sinclair and Winifred Holtby; Notes; References; 8 Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette ; 'Hunger, rebellion, and rage'; 'Old and new acquaintance': Villette as always already adapted. |
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Spying and surveillance in VilletteThe Pensionnat Beck and education; Paul Emanuel; Voicing Lucy Snowe; 'There is enough said': the ending of Villette; Conclusion; Notes; References; 9 The ethics of appropriation; or, the 'mere spectre' of Jane Eyre ... ; Respect or retaliation, nostalgia or theft: accessibility, unresolved tensions ... ; Complicated layers of re-vision: the presence of Wide Sargasso Sea; 'Worn to nothing'? Depletion, originality and the 'mere spectre' of Jane Eyre; Doing a similar plot in different voices: secrets, marginalisation and multiplicity. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Regis, Amber K., editor.
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Wynne, Deborah, 1963-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Charlotte Brontë. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 1784992461 (OCoLC)964538894 |
| ISBN |
9781526119841 (electronic book) |
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1526119846 (electronic book) |
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1784992461 |
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9781784992460 |
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