This book examines the embodied experiences that informed the artworks Charlotte Brontë produced and the everyday objects she encountered. Drawing together ten 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 writing—from vignettes composed during the author’s 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.weiterlesen