Charlotte Brontë (eBook)

Amber K. Regis is Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield Deborah Wynne is Professor of English at the University of Chester

Introduction: picturing Charlotte Brontë – Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne
Part I: Ghostly afterlives: cults, literary tourism and staging the life
1 The ‘Charlotte’ cult: writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf – Deborah Wynne
2 The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration, and the global in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley and the writings of Mary Taylor – Jude Piesse
3 Brontë countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels – Charlotte Mathieson
4 Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontë’s literary afterlives: charting the path from the ‘silent country’ to the seance – Amber Pouliot
5 Charlotte Brontë on stage: 1930s biodrama and the archive/museum performed – Amber K. Regis
Part II: Textual legacies: influences and adaptations
6 ‘Poetry as I comprehend the word’: Charlotte Brontë’s lyric afterlife – Anna Barton
7 The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war women’s writing – Emma Liggins
8 Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette – Benjamin Poore
9 The ethics of appropriation; or, the ‘mere spectre’ of Jane Eyre: Emma Tennant’s Thornfield Hall, Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair and Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights – Alexandra Lewis
10 ‘The insane Creole’: the afterlife of Bertha Mason – Jessica Cox
11 Jane Eyre’s transmedia lives – Monika Pietrzak-Franger
12 ‘Reader, I [shagged/beat/whipped/f****d/rewrote] him’: the sexual and financial afterlives of Jane Eyre – Louisa Yates
Appendix: Charlotte Brontë's cultural legacy, 1848–2016 – Kimberley Braxton
Index