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Pizzo, Justine and Houghton, Eleanor (2020) Introduction. In, Pizzo, J. and Houghton, E. (eds.) Charlotte Brontë, Embodiment and the Material World. (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) Cham. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-23. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34855-7_1).

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This introductory chapter examines the intersections between embodiment, material culture, and Charlotte Brontë’s life and writing. It charts the evolution of Brontë studies following the rise of New Historicism and seminal scholarship from the 1990s and early 2000s by critics and biographers such as Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars, Juliet Barker, Lucasta Miller, Sally Shuttleworth, and Margaret Smith. The chapter goes on to discuss how the “material turn” and recent theories of embodiment inform twenty-first -century approaches to the presentation and reception of Brontë’s art, life, and legacy. Focusing on the interdisciplinary conversations that comprise the volume, the editors discuss how book history, cultural heritage, the history of dress, literary criticism, and museum curation prove vital to understanding the ways in which readers have responded to Brontë’s work from its original publication to the present day.

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