Companion to the Brontës

Diane Long Hoeveler is Emerita Professor of English at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is author most recently of the award-winning books The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1770–1870 (2014), and Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 (2010). She is author, co-author or editor of over a dozen scholarly and reference books, and some 65 articles on a variety of literary topics. Deborah Denenholz Morse is the Vera W. Barkley Term Professor of English, inaugural Fellow of the Center for the Liberal Arts, and Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar at The College of William and Mary.  She is author most recently of Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (2013) as well as author and editor of a number of other books. She has published extensively on all three Brontë sisters, and on other women writers from the Victorian era to the present day.

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Deborah Denenholz Morse and Diane Long HoevelerPart I Imaginative Forms and Literary/Critical Contexts 91 Experimentation and the Early Writings 11Christine Alexander2 The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition 31Diane Long Hoeveler3 The Critical Recuperation of and Theoretical Approaches to the Brontës 49Lisa Jadwin4 Journeying Home: Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw’s Coming]of]Age Stories 65Amy J. RobinsonPart II Texts 795 Wuthering Heights 81Louise Lee6 Jane Eyre 101Margaret Markwick7 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 115Kari Lokke8 Agnes Grey 135Judith E. Pike9 Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor 151Tabitha Sparks10 Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley 167Herbert Rosengarten11 Villette 183Penny Boumelha12 Poetry, Campaigning Articles, and Letters by Patrick Brontë 197Dudley Green13 The Poetry and Verse Drama of Branwell Brontë 213Julie Donovan14 Poetry of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily 229John Maynard15 The Artwork of the Brontës 249Nancy V. Workman16 The Letters and Brussels Essays 265Karen E. LairdPart III Reception Studies 28317 The Brontës and the Periodicals of the 1820s and 1830s 285Lucasta Miller18 The Brontës and the Victorian Reading Public, 1846–1860 303Alexis EasleyPart IV Historical, Intellectual, and Cultural Contexts 31919 The Temptations of a Daughterless Mother: Jane Eyre and the Feminist/Postcolonial Dilemma 321Ken Hiltner20 Race, Slavery, and the Slave Trade 339Beverly Taylor21 Marriage and Divorce in the Novels 355Beth Lau22 Physical and Mental Health in the Brontës’ Lives and Works 369Carol A. Senf23 The Brontës and the Death Question 385Carol Margaret Davison24 The Irish Heritage of the Brontës 403Edward Chitham25 The Intellectual and Philosophical Contexts 417Elisha Cohn26 The Religion(s) of the Brontës 433Miriam Elizabeth Burstein27 Reading the Arts in the Brontë Fiction 453Judith Wilt28 Politics, Legal Concerns, and Reforms 471Simon Avery29 Class and Gender in the Brontë Novels 485Tara MacDonaldPart V Afterlives of the Brontës 50130 Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and Their Filmic Adaptations 503Tom Winnifrith31 Mixed Signals: Narrative Fidelity, Female Speech, and Masculine Spectacle in Adapting the Brontë Novels as Films 513Brandon Chitwood32 Brontë Hauntings: Literary Works from Modernism to the Present 529Deborah Denenholz Morse33 The Brontë Family in Popular Culture 547Abigail Burnham Bloom34 The Brontë Parsonage Museum, the Brontë Society, and the Preservation of Brontëana 565Ann Dinsdale35 Biographical Myths and Legends of the Brontës 579Sarah E. MaierIndex 593

"Through brief overviews within each article situating its focus within scholarly, historical, cultural, literary, and/ or thematic contexts, and more sustained analysis of the given topic, including close readings, this companion provides a rewarding blend of insights for a range of readers and scholars." Susan B. Taylor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Summer 2018 issue of Victorian Studies (60.4)