The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts

The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered the creative ambitions of four of the nineteenth century’s most provocative novelists, poets and visual artists. In turn, the Brontës now sustain heritage, tourism and creative industries that adapt and disseminate their lives and work, their likenesses and words, across the globe: in books, on a plethora of screens (film, TV, computer and phone), in discarnate audio (radio and podcasts) and embodied on stage. The essays collected here offer the first panoramic and sustained examination of the Brontës’ lives, work and legacies in relation to the visual, musical, plastic and performing arts, tracing their influences and transformations across the lives and cultural afterlives of this extraordinary literary family.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
pp 1-18
- By Deborah Wynne, Amber K. Regis
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Part I - Contexts and Texts: Visual Aesthetics and the Brontës
pp 19-20
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1 - The Art of the Brontës: Looking Forward, Looking Back
pp 21-41
- By Jane Sellars
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2 - ‘Distant prospects are Anne’s delight’: Landscape Art in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
pp 42-53
- By Deborah Wynne
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3 - Branwell Brontë and the Visual Aesthetics of Death
pp 54-64
- By Kimberley Braxton
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4 - Charlotte Brontë’s Visual Aesthetics: Reading Art in Jane Eyre and Villette
pp 65-76
- By Tamara S. Wagner
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5 - Altering the Colour: Aesthetics and the Poetic Imagination in Emily Brontë’s Poetry and Wuthering Heights
pp 77-88
- By Deborah Denenholz Morse, Lydia Brown
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6 - ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts
pp 89-101
- By Valerie Sanders
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7 - ‘Be a man, sir!’: Contending Interpretations of Heroism in the Angrian Illustrations
pp 102-114
- By Ann-Marie Tupciauskas Richardson
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Part II - Cultures of Influence
pp 115-116
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8 - Sculpture, Sculptors and the Brontës
pp 117-137
- By Susan B. Taylor
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9 - Charlotte Brontë’s Shameful Theatre: Stage, Page and Autobiographical Acts in Villette
pp 138-161
- By Amber K. Regis
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10 - ‘Those shadowy recollections’: The Brontës and Romanticism
pp 162-174
- By James Quinnell
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11 - ‘When pure religion, rules the feeling heart’: The Brontës’ Evangelical Romanticism
pp 175-189
- By Simon Marsden
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12 - The Brontës and the ‘National Art’ of Ireland
pp 190-206
- By Melissa Fegan
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13 - Charlotte Brontë’s Mythic Figures: Prometheus and Medusa in ‘The Death of Napoleon’, The Professor and Jane Eyre
pp 207-220
- By Carl Plasa
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Part III - The Lives, Heritage and the Natural World
pp 221-222
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14 - Three Gatherings of Brontëan Flora and Fauna: Myth, Parsonage, Literature
pp 223-237
- By Shawna Ross
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15 - Planting a Garden in Brontë Country: Gardens in the Brontës’ Lives, Art and Legacy
pp 238-251
- By Jude Piesse
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16 - ‘What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?’: Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire Noir and the Ontological Work of Genre and Place
pp 252-265
- By Lauren M. E. Goodlad
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17 - ‘Grander and more correct’: The Art of Brontë Life-Writing, 1850–1940
pp 266-280
- By Lucy Fellows
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18 - More Brontë Stories: Mythography and the Art of Life-Writing
pp 281-296
- By Siv Jansson
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19 - Making the Absent Present: Contemporary Art in the Brontë Parsonage Museum
pp 297-312
- By Nick Cass
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20 - The Brontës: A Musical: Two Interviews
pp 313-328
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Part IV - Afterlives: New Editions, Media Arts and Adaptation
pp 329-330
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21 - A Reprinting History of the Brontës’ Poetry, 1850–1899
pp 331-354
- By Alexis Easley
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