The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Contexts and Texts: Visual Aesthetics and the Brontës 1. The Art of the Brontës: Looking Forward, Looking Back 2. ‘Distant prospects are Anne’s delight’: Landscape Art in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 3. Branwell Brontë and the Visual Aesthetics of Death 4. Charlotte Brontë’s Visual Aesthetics: Reading Art in Jane Eyre and Villette 5. Altering the Colour: Aesthetics and the Poetic Imagination in Emily Brontë’s Poetry and Wuthering Heights 6. ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts 7. ‘Be a man, sir!’: Contending Interpretations of Heroism in the Angrian Illustrations Part II: Cultures of Influence 8. Sculpture, Sculptors and the Brontës 9. Charlotte Brontë’s Shameful Theatre: Stage, Page and Autobiographical Acts in Villette 10. ‘Those shadowy recollections’: The Brontës and Romanticism 11. ‘When pure religion, rules the feeling heart’: The Brontës’ Evangelical Romanticism 12. The Brontës and the ‘National Art’ of Ireland 13. Charlotte Brontë’s Mythic Figures: Prometheus and Medusa in ‘The Death of Napoleon’, The Professor and Jane Eyre Part III: The Lives, Heritage and the Natural World 14. Three Gatherings of Brontëan Flora and Fauna: Myth, Parsonage, Literature 15. Planting a Garden in Brontë Country: Gardens in the Brontës’ Lives, Art and Legacy 16. ‘What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?’: Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire Noir and the Ontological Work of Genre and Place 17. ‘Grander and more correct’: The Art of Brontë Life-Writing, 1850–1940 18. More Brontë Stories: Mythography and the Art of Life-Writing 19. Making the Absent Present: Contemporary Art in the Brontë Parsonage Museum 20. The Brontës: A Musical: Two Interviews Part IV: Afterlives: New Editions, Media Arts and Adaptation 21. A Reprinting History of the Brontës’ Poetry, 1850–1899 22. The Brontës and Illustration: Private Sketches and Public Representations 23. Staging Buried Lives: Brontë Adaptations and the Problems of Passivity 24. Unseen Scenes: Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor on BBC Radio 25. Auteurs and Authenticity: Adapting the Brontës in the Twenty-First Century 26. Unmooring the Brontës: Digital Afterlives 27. Emily and Anne Brontë as Fanfiction Writers: The Gondal Saga 28. The Brontës and Neo-Victorianism: The Afterlives of Wuthering Heights and the Legacy of Wide Sargasso Sea; or, Reading Race, Identity and Violence in Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child and Michael Stewart’s Ill Will 29. The Brontës and Popular Culture: Reading and Misreading Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights Notes on Contributors Index