Charlotte Bront: Legacies and Afterlives

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Charlotte Bronte: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Bronte's life and work. The new essays in this volume, which cover the period from Bronte's first publication to the twenty-first century, explain why her work has endured in so many different forms and contexts. Thi

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To remind oneself of just how provisional even the most "definitive" treatments of Bront's life and work inevitably turn out to be, you have only to turn to Charlotte Bront: legacies and afterlives, edited by Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne. Here you will find an account of the dizzyingly varied ways in which scholars and creative practitioners have metabolized Bront's work in the decades since her death before returning it to the world, transformed.
Kathryn Hughes, TLS January 2018

The book begins with a scrupulous and detailed account of actual and conjectural pictures of Bront I cannot think of another artist whose appearance has received so much attention. What is the difference between the continuing life of works of art and the continuing life of an artist What difference does it make to that continuing life when the artist is a woman Most of the essays in part 1 focus on the afterlife part of this collection, and are thoughtful, scholarly, and consistently attentive to what it now means to study a Victorian cult writer in relation to the history of her reception and to contemporary concerns.
Janet Gezari, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Volume 61, Number 1, Autumn 2018

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Amber K. Regis is Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield

Deborah Wynne is Professor of English at the University of Chester