ENGL 3907: The Brontës

A Brontë Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the Brontë family, highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontës' lives. Comprises approximately 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries. Defines and describes the Brontës' fictional characters and settings. Incorporates original literary judgements and analyses of characters and motives. Includes coverage of Charlotte's unfinished novels and her and Branwell's juvenile writings. Features over 60 illustrations.

The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the keys phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major Victorian literary genres, and the way Victorians defined their persons, their homes, and their national identities. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter's approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship.

In-depth surveys of the Brontës’ lives and works are supplemented by entries on their friends and acquaintances, pets, literary and political heroes; on the places they knew and the places they imagined; on their letters, drawings, and paintings.

Extensive coverage of their juvenilia sheds light on their early imaginative worlds, while entries on the sequels and adaptations in film, theatre, and television convey the myriad ways their works live on.