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