The Oxford Companion to the Brontes: Anniversary Edition

ISBN-13: 9780198819950 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 640 str.

Christine Alexander; Margaret Smith

Opis

This Companion brings together a wealth of information about the perennially fascinating lives and writings of the Bronte sisters. In addition, wide-ranging articles enable the reader to see them in their literary and social context, and to trace their enduring influence on the work of other writers.

Recenzje

The anniversary edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës is a carefully compiled, extended reissue of the comprehensive volume of scholarship first published in 2003. Its timely publication contributes to the exciting increase in scholarship on the Brontë siblings to commemorate the bicentenaries of their births. Tamara S. Wagner, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era

O autorze

Christine Alexander is Emeritus Scientia Professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and general editor of the Juvenilia Press. Her books include the multi-volume Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë, the co-authored The Art of the Brontës, The BrontÃ'sâ Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: Selected Early Writings, Jane Austen's Love and Friendship and Other Youthful Writings, and the British Academy prize-winning book The Early Writings of Charlotte Brontë. She has also published widely on gothic literature, critical editing, literary juvenilia, and landscape gardening, and has co-edited The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf. Margaret Smith was formerly Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Science, University of Birmingham, and a Vice-President of the Brontë Society. She has edited many of the Brontës' works, including The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and The Letters of Charlotte Brontë.