A Companion to the Brontës (eBook)

Diane Long Hoeveler, Deborah Denenholz Morse (Autoren)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
632 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-40547-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family.

* Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family's continuing influence

* Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world

* Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day - from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform

* Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

Autor

Diane Long Hoeveler is Professor of English at Marquette University, USA. She has published widely on a variety of topics within literature, including gothic and religious transformations, romanticism and gender, and women writers in the nineteenth century. Most recently, she is author of The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1770-1870 (2014) and Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 (2010), which shared the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Award from the International Gothic Association. She is co-editor ofthe three-volume The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature (with Burwick and Goslee, Wiley Blackwell, 2012) . Hoeveler served as President of the International Conference of Romanticism from 2001-2003, and is now co-editor of the European Romantic Review.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Bronte (Familie) • Englische Literatur • English literature • Literature • Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-118-40547-1 / 1118405471
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-40547-5 / 9781118405475