The Brontës and War

Emma Butcher is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research focuses on childhood, literature and war in the nineteenth century. In 2017, Emma was named as one of the BBC/AHRC's New Generation Thinkers and she is a regular contributor to BBC Radio, as well as various public history platforms. She has worked closely with the Brontë Parsonage for a number of years, co-curating their 2015 exhibition, 'The Brontës and War'. This is her first book. Agent: Kirsty McLachlan, David Godwin Associates.

1. The Brontës at war.- 2. Angria and war in context.- 3. Wellington and Napoleon: the fantastical crafting of military celebrity.- 4. The Napoleonic Wars: 'emotion and the everyday soldier'.- 5. Colonial warfare: 'violence and blackness'.- 6. Civil war and conflict: 'rebellion and revolt'.- 7. Conclusion: The Brontës violent legacies.

"The strengths of The Brontës and War are Butcher's clear exposition of the historical war and military milieu within which Charlotte and Branwell wrote ... . she has engaged in admirably wide-ranging and nuanced research around war and military cultures and valuably opened up a field for further study." (Sue Thomas, Victorian Studies, Vol. 63 (4), 2021)

"Butcher's contribution to the history of childhood in the early nineteenth century is significant, adding depth to the existing study of material culture in post-Napoleonic-War Britain ... ." (Vic Clarke, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 21 (3), 2021)