Overview
- Contributes to the material turn in Victorian studies and to new approaches to sensation and embodiment
- Looks at the relationship between literary interpretation and historical analysis of the objects she created, handled, and wore
- Demonstrates how her once physical embodiment continues to haunt her place within the literary canon and popular imagination
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Power of Things
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history,
literary criticism and curatorial and archival studies, this co-edited volume
addresses a wide range of Brontë’s writing—from vignettes composed during her
teenage years (“The Tea Party” and “The Secret”) to completed novels (The
Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works (“Ashworth” and
“Emma”). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences that
shaped Brontë’s creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and
drawing), Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World forges new
connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author’s
work.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Justine Pizzo is a Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, UK. Her book
project, provisionally titled “The Character of Climate: Woman and Atmosphere
in Victorian Fiction,” examines how aerial climates shape female characterization
in mid-nineteenth and early twentieth-century novels. Her essays on Charlotte
Brontë have appeared in PMLA and in a volume on Climate and Literature (ed. Johns-Putra,
2019) published by Cambridge University Press.
Eleanor Houghton read English at the University of Oxford, UK, before being awarded a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities at the University of Southampton, UK. She has recently completed her doctoral thesis “Charlotte Brontë, ‘Plainness’ and the Language of Dress” and works as costume consultant and historical advisor for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, UK, and the BBC.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World
Editors: Justine Pizzo, Eleanor Houghton
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34855-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34854-0Published: 10 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34857-1Published: 10 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34855-7Published: 09 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 258
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Culture and Gender, British and Irish Literature, Literary History