A Companion to the Brontes

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Deborah Denenholz Morse and Diane Long Hoeveler Part I Imaginative Forms and Literary/Critical Contexts 9 1 Experimentation and the Early Writings 11 Christine Alexander 2 The Brontës and the Gothic Tradition 31 Diane Long Hoeveler 3 The Critical Recuperation of and Theoretical Approaches to the Brontës 49 Lisa Jadwin 4 Journeying Home: Jane Eyre and Catherine Earnshaw's Coming ]of ]Age Stories 65 Amy J. Robinson Part II Texts 79 5 Wuthering Heights 81 Louise Lee 6 Jane Eyre 101 Margaret Markwick 7 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 115 Kari Lokke 8 Agnes Grey 135 Judith E. Pike 9 Charlotte Brontë's The Professor 151 Tabitha Sparks 10 Charlotte Brontë's Shirley 167 Herbert Rosengarten 11 Villette 183 Penny Boumelha 12 Poetry, Campaigning Articles, and Letters by Patrick Brontë 197 Dudley Green 13 The Poetry and Verse Drama of Branwell Brontë 213 Julie Donovan 14 Poetry of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily 229 John Maynard 15 The Artwork of the Brontës 249 Nancy V. Workman 16 The Letters and Brussels Essays 265 Karen E. Laird Part III Reception Studies 283 17 The Brontës and the Periodicals of the 1820s and 1830s 285 Lucasta Miller 18 The Brontës and the Victorian Reading Public, 1846-1860 303 Alexis Easley Part IV Historical, Intellectual, and Cultural Contexts 319 19 The Temptations of a Daughterless Mother: Jane Eyre and the Feminist/Postcolonial Dilemma 321 Ken Hiltner 20 Race, Slavery, and the Slave Trade 339 Beverly Taylor 21 Marriage and Divorce in the Novels 355 Beth Lau 22 Physical and Mental Health in the Brontës' Lives and Works 369 Carol A. Senf 23 The Brontës and the Death Question 385 Carol Margaret Davison 24 The Irish Heritage of the Brontës 403 Edward Chitham 25 The Intellectual and Philosophical Contexts 417 Elisha Cohn 26 The Religion(s) of the Brontës 433 Miriam Elizabeth Burstein 27 Reading the Arts in the Brontë Fiction 453 Judith Wilt 28 Politics, Legal Concerns, and Reforms 471 Simon Avery 29 Class and Gender in the Brontë Novels 485 Tara MacDonald Part V Afterlives of the Brontës 501 30 Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and Their Filmic Adaptations 503 Tom Winnifrith 31 Mixed Signals: Narrative Fidelity, Female Speech, and Masculine Spectacle in Adapting the Brontë Novels as Films 513 Brandon Chitwood 32 Brontë Hauntings: Literary Works from Modernism to the Present 529 Deborah Denenholz Morse 33 The Brontë Family in Popular Culture 547 Abigail Burnham Bloom 34 The Brontë Parsonage Museum, the Brontë Society, and the Preservation of Brontëana 565 Ann Dinsdale 35 Biographical Myths and Legends of the Brontës 579 Sarah E. Maier Index 593