Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World

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.