Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts

Amber K. Regis is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield. Her previous work includes a critical edition of John Addington Symonds’s Memoirs (2016) and various essays on life-writing, portraits, prefaces, Taylor Swift and grief. She is co-editor with Deborah Wynne of Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives (2017), to which she contributed a chapter on Brontë biodrama. Deborah Wynne is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Chester, UK. Her research focuses on Victorian writers and material culture. She is the author of The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine (2001) and Women and Personal Property in the Victorian Novel (2010). She has more recently published articles and book chapters on Charlotte Brontë and has co-edited with Amber K. Regis, Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives (2017), and with Louisa Yates, Victorian Material Culture: Manufactured Things (2022).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionDeborah Wynne and Amber K. RegisPart I. Contexts and Texts: Visual Aesthetics and the Brontës1. The Art of the Brontës: Looking Forward, Looking BackJane Sellars2. ‘Distant prospects are Anne’s delight’: Landscape Art in The Tenant of Wildfell HallDeborah Wynne3. Branwell Brontë and the Visual Aesthetics of DeathKimberley Braxton4. Charlotte Brontë’s Visual Aesthetics: Reading Art in Jane Eyre and VilletteTamara S. Wagner5. Altering the Colour: Aesthetics and the Poetic Imagination in Emily Brontë’s Poetry and Wuthering HeightsDeborah Denenholz Morse with Lydia Brown6. ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the ArtsValerie Sanders7. ‘Be a man, sir!’:Contending Interpretations of Heroism in the Angrian IllustrationsAnn-Marie Tupciauskas-RichardsonPart II. Cultures of Influence8. Sculpture, Sculptors and the BrontësSusan B. Taylor9. Charlotte Brontë’s Shameful Theatre: Stage, Page and Autobiographical Acts in VilletteAmber K. Regis10. ‘Those shadowy recollections’: The Brontës and RomanticismJames Quinnell11. ‘When pure religion, rules the feeling heart’: The Brontës’ Evangelical RomanticismSimon Marsden12. The Brontës and the ‘National Art’ of IrelandMelissa Fegan13. Charlotte Brontë’s Mythic Figures: Prometheus and Medusa in ‘The Death of Napoleon’, The Professor and Jane EyreCarl PlasaPart III. The Lives, Heritage and the Natural World14. Three Gatherings of Brontëan Flora and Fauna: Myth, Parsonage, LiteratureShawna Ross15. Planting a Garden in Brontë Country: Gardens in the Brontës’ Lives, Art and LegacyJude Piesse16. ‘What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?’: Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire Noir and the Ontological Work of Genre and PlaceLauren M. E. Goodlad17. ‘Grander and more correct’: The Art of Brontë Life-Writing, 1850–1940Lucy Fellows18. More Brontë Stories: Mythography and the Art of Life-WritingSiv Jansson19. Making the Absent Present: Contemporary Art in the Brontë Parsonage MuseumNick Cass20. The Brontës: A Musical: Two InterviewsPart IV. Afterlives: New Editions, Media Arts and Adaptation21. A Reprinting History of the Brontës’ Poetry, 1850–1899Alexis Easley22. The Brontës and Illustration:n Private Sketches and Public RepresentationsSimon Grennan and Deborah Wynne23. Staging Buried Lives: Brontë Adaptations and the Problems of PassivityFrances Babbage24. Unseen Scenes: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor on BBC RadioCatherine Paula Han25. Auteurs and Authenticity: Adapting the Brontës in the Twenty-First CenturyShelley Anne Galpin26. Unmooring the Brontës: Digital AfterlivesKylie Mirmohamadi27. Emily and Anne Brontë as Fanfiction Writers: The Gondal SagaMaría Seijo-Richart28. The Brontës and Neo-Victorianism: The Afterlives of Wuthering Heights and the Legacy of Wide Sargasso Sea; or, Reading Race and Identity in Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child and Michael Stewart’s Ill Will Claire O’Callaghan29. The Brontës and Popular Culture: Reading and Misreading Jane Eyre and Wuthering HeightsJo WaughNotes on ContributorsIndex

A fresh and richly engaging collection of essays. Brontë enthusiasts will enjoy exploring the family's artistic relationships with the imaginary and material worlds around them. This wide-ranging volume also subjects the Brontës’ artistic afterlives to some fascinating analysis, proving that the Brontës continue to exert a potent influence, from stage to visual art and now digital media.