Charlotte Bront, 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 Bronts writingfrom 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 Bronts creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, and drawing), Charlotte Bront, Embodiment and the Material World forges new connections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the authors work.