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.