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The Oxford Companion to the Brontës
First Edition
Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith
640 pages
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40 halftones, maps
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234x156mm
978-0-19-861432-6
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Paperback
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09 March 2006
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- The first time so much information about the Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë has been gathered together in an accessible A-Z volume
- Authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date information on all topics related to the Brontës
- Suitable both for the research student and the general reader
- Contributions from Brontë specialists from around the world
- Over 2,000 entries
- All the Brontës' writings, including their juvenilia, covered in depth
- Wide-ranging articles enable the reader to see the Brontës in their literary and social context, and to trace their enduring influence on the work of other writers
- Extensive cross-referencing, a classifed contents, a chronology, and a bibliography facilitate quick reference and encourage further exploration
- Carefully selected illustrations complement the text
The Oxford Companion to the Brontës provides both comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, and their father and brother Branwell - all of whom were published writers. It is the first time so much information about the family has been gathered together in an A-Z reference book.
The story of the Brontës has become the stuff of myth: three women living on the wild Yorkshire moors, writing works of weird and wonderful genius. Charlotte Brontë claimed that her sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights was 'hewn in a wild workshop'. Inspired by a deep love of nature and an intensely private imaginative world it certainly was, but Emily's
novel, like those of her sisters, is engaged with 19th-century issues and debates.
The Brontës lived in a thriving woollen-mill town and participated in local activities - the church, education, concerts, elections, exhibitions. They devoured the latest newspapers and journals, and kept abreast of politics. Their reading was wide and eclectic. A central purpose of the Companion is to evoke the milieu in which they lived and worked, revealing the complex interrelation between their lives, writings, and times.
Long entries surveying the Brontës lives and works are supplemented by entries on friends and acquaintances, pets, literary and political heroes; on the places they knew and the places they imagined; on their letters, drawings and
paintings; on historical events such as Chartism, the Peterloo Massacre and the Ashantee Wars; on exploration, slavery, and religion. Selected entries on the characters and places in the Brontë juvenilia provide a glimpse into their early imaginative worlds, and entries on film, ballet, and musicals indicate the extent to which their works have inspired others.
This is a unique and authoritative reference book for the research student and the general reader - now available in paperback. The A-Z format, extensive cross-referencing, classified contents, chronologies, illustrations, and maps, both facilitate quick reference and encourage further exploration. Entries are also designed to explore scholarly trends and to reflect contemporary directions in literary study.
They offer insight into publishing history, bibliographical studies, collectors and museums, book illustration, and theoretical and critical approaches to the Brontës' writings. This Companion is not only invaluable for quick searches, but a delight to browse, and an inspiration to further reading.
Readership: Academics, researchers, and students interested in 19th-century literature, Brontë enthusiasts, especially members of the Brontë Society (including the societies in Australia and Japan), university and college libraries, general libraries.
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Christine Alexander, School of English, University of New South Wales, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Margaret Smith, Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham; editor of many of the Brontës' works, and of the Brontë letters Contributors:
Carol Bock, Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Dr Sue Lonoff, Senior Associate of the Derek Bok Center, Harvard University
Victor Neufeldt, Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Herbert Rosengarten.
Professor of English, University of British Columbia
Virginia Rushton, professional singer and voice teacher
Patsy Stoneman, Reader in English, University of Hull
Beverley Taylor, Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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"'wonderfully detailed'" - Christopher Hirst and Christina Patterson, Independent "'This book is a must....A treasure trove of a book'" - Brian Maye, Irish Times
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Preface
Editors and Contributors
Classified Contents List
Abbreviations
Chronology
Maps
Note to the Reader
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE BRONTES: A-Z
Dialect and Obsolete Words
Bibliography
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