The Brontës In The World Of The Arts

Author : Sandra Hagan,Juliette Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351893503

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The Brontës in the World of the Arts by Sandra Hagan,Juliette Wells Pdf

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' relationship to the wider world of the arts, including their relationship to the visual arts. The contributors examine the siblings' artistic ambitions, productions, and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms. Also considered are re-envisionings of the Brontës' works, with an emphasis on those created in the artistic media the siblings themselves knew or practiced. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.

Author : Lena Coakley
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781443416610

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Worlds Of Ink And Shadow by Lena Coakley Pdf

The Bronte siblings—Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne—find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue missing from their isolated parsonage home. But at what price? As Branwell begins to descend into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as the characters they have created—the brooding Rogue and dashing Duke of Zamorna—refuse to let them go. Gorgeously written and based on the Brontes’ juvenilia, Worlds of Ink and Shadow brings to life one of history’s most celebrated literary families in a thrilling, suspenseful fantasy.

Author : Christine Alexander,Jane Sellars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521438411

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The Art of the Brontës by Christine Alexander,Jane Sellars Pdf

The first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Brontë sisters and their brother, Branwell.

Author : Isabel Greenberg
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683358596

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Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg Pdf

A graphic novel about the Brontë siblings and their inventive childhood from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth. NPR Best Book of 2020 Glass Town is an original graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that encompasses the eccentric childhoods of the four Brontë children—Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. The story begins in 1825, with the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth, the eldest siblings. It is in response to this loss that the four remaining Brontë children set pen to paper and created the fictional world that became known as Glass Town. This world and its cast of characters would come to be the Brontës’ escape from the realities of their lives. Within Glass Town the siblings experienced love, friendship, war, triumph, and heartbreak. Through a combination of quotes from the stories originally penned by the Brontës, biographical information about them, and Greenberg’s vivid comic book illustrations, readers will find themselves enraptured by this fascinating imaginary world. “This lyrical, endlessly inventive book will appeal equally to lovers of history, literature, and metatextual fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Drawn with a cheery and expansive sweep that belies its sometimes somber subject, Glass Town is a testament to the (usually) redemptive powers of imagination.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Greenberg pulls Glass Town and its characters directly from the Brontës’ juvenilia, giving readers a look into the early creativity of an iconic literary family with a playful visual style that captures the Brontës’ enthusiasm as they discover what fiction can do.” —AV Club

Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139851176

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The Brontës in Context by Marianne Thormählen Pdf

Very few families produce one outstanding writer. The Brontë family produced three. The works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne remain immensely popular, and are increasingly being studied in relation to the surroundings and wider context that formed them. The forty-two new essays in this book tell 'the Brontë story' as it has never been told before, drawing on the latest research and the best available scholarship while offering new perspectives on the writings of the sisters. A section on Brontë criticism traces their reception to the present day. The works of the sisters are explored in the context of social, political and cultural developments in early-nineteenth-century Britain, with attention given to religion, education, art, print culture, agriculture, law and medicine. Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time, suggesting reasons for its enduring fascination.

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118404942

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A Companion to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse Pdf

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

Author : Maria Ioannou,Maria Kyriakidou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443870160

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Female Beauty in Art by Maria Ioannou,Maria Kyriakidou Pdf

In Female Beauty in Art, a series of essays examine the presence and role of female beauty in art, history and culture, and consider the ways in which beauty can function as a discourse of female identity. As a concept, female beauty is unique in that it can contain compelling imbrications of gender ideologies, images, relations, cultural constructions and modes of interaction between persons and the institutions that define their lives. Thus, female beauty can provide proliferating methods t...

Author : Alexandra Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107154810

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The Brontës and the Idea of the Human by Alexandra Lewis Pdf

Investigates the idea of the human within Brontë sisters' work, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts.

Author : Dr Eithne Henson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409479079

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Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy by Dr Eithne Henson Pdf

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson discusses the influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, particularly on Brontë and Eliot, and argues that Ruskinian aesthetics, Darwinism, and other scientific preoccupations of an industrializing economy, changed constructions of landscape in the later nineteenth century. Henson examines the conventions of reading landscape, including the implied expectations of the reader, the question of the gendered narrator, how place defines the kind of action and characters in the novels, the importance of landscape in creating mood, the pastoral as a moral marker for readers, and the influence of changing aesthetic theory on the implied painterly models that the three authors reproduce in their work. She also considers how each writer defines the concept of Englishness against an internal or colonial Other. Alongside these concerns, Henson interrogates the ancient trope that equates woman with nature, and the effect of comparing women to natural objects or offering them as objects of the male gaze, typically to diminish or control them. Informed by close readings, Henson's study offers an original approach to the significances of landscape in the 'realist' nineteenth-century novel.

Author : Dehn Gilmore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107044227

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The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art by Dehn Gilmore Pdf

An interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the Victorian novel and visual art including galleries, museums and The Great Exhibition.

Author : Anne Brontë,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0752513753

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The Brontes by Anne Brontë,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë Pdf

Author : Judith E. Pike,Lucy Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317168157

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Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings by Judith E. Pike,Lucy Morrison Pdf

Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century's literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer's mind. As the contributors show, Brontë's authorship took shape among the pages of her juvenilia, as figures from Brontë's childhood experience of the world such as Wellington and Napoleon transmuted to her fictional pages, while her siblings' works and worlds both overlapped with and extended beyond her own.

Author : Marie Campbell
Publisher : Sigma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1850587582

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Strange World of the Brontës by Marie Campbell Pdf

Author : Nick Cass,Gill Park,Anna Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429624384

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Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces by Nick Cass,Gill Park,Anna Powell Pdf

Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces considers the challenges that accompany an assessment of the role of contemporary art in heritage contexts, whilst also examining ways to measure and articulate the impact and value of these intersections in the future. Presenting a variety of perspectives from a broad range of creative and cultural industries, this book examines case studies from the past decade where contemporary art has been sited within heritage spaces. Exploring the impact of these instances of intersection, and the thinking behind such moments of confluence, it provides an insight into a breadth of experiences – from curator, producer, and practitioner to visitor – of exhibitions where this juncture between contemporary art and heritage plays a crucial and critical role. Themes covered in the book include interpretation, soliciting and measuring audience responses, tourism and the visitor economy, regeneration agendas, heritage research, marginalised histories, and the legacy of exhibitions. Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museum and heritage studies and contemporary art around the globe. Museum practitioners and artists should also find much to interest them within the pages of this volume. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Heather Glen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521779715

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The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës by Heather Glen Pdf

The extraordinary works of the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë have entranced and challenged scholars, students, and general readers for the past 150 years. This Companion offers a fascinating introduction to those works, including two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century - Charlotte s Jane Eyre and Emily s Wuthering Heights. In a series of original essays, contributors explore the roots of the sisters achievement in early nineteenth-century Haworth, and the childhood plays they developed; they set these writings within the context of a wider history, and show how each sister engages with some of the central issues of her time. The essays also consider the meaning and significance of the Brontës enduring popular appeal. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading provide further reference material, making this a volume indispensable for scholars and students, and all those interested in the Brontës and their work.