Charlotte Brontë, 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 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