Charlotte Bronte, 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 volumeaddresses a wide range of Bronte's writing-from vignettes composed during herteenage years ("The Tea Party" and "The Secret") to completed novels (TheProfessor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette) and unfinished works ("Ashworth" and"Emma"). In bringing to life the surprising array of embodied experiences thatshaped Bronte's creative practice (from writing to book-making, painting, anddrawing), Charlotte Bronte, Embodiment and the Material World forges newconnections between historical, material, and textual approaches to the author'swork.