The Bront�s in the World of the Arts (The Nineteenth Century Series) Tapa dura - 2008

Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. The Nineteenth Century. xii, 256 p. 24 cm. 21 b&w illustrations. Black cloth hardcover in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Some stains to text block edge. Discussion of: Charlotte and the pictorial image; Branwell and Jane Eyre; Anne's aesthetics; painting in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; the limits of artistry in Jane Eyre; the hieroglyphics of Catherine; Shirley; Charlotte and the pleasures of acting; fuctions of fashion in Villette; Edmund Dulac, Lucy Snowe and the illustration of Villette; the emergence of Bertha; the voices of Emily Bronte and Cathy in opera and song. Bibliography and index. "With esasys by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontes and their cultural contexts."

Routledge. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1.