Charlotte Brontë Legacies and Afterlives

Introduction: picturing Charlotte Brontë / Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne -- Part I: Ghostly afterlives: cults, literary tourism and staging the life -- The 'Charlote' cult : writing the literary pilgrimage, from Gaskell to Woolf / Deborah Wynne -- The path out of Haworth: mobility, migration, and the global in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley and the writings of Mary Taylor / Jude Piesse -- Brontë countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels / Charlotte Mathieson -- Reading the revenant in Charlotte Brontë''s literary afterlives: charting the path from the 'silent country' to the séance / Amber Pouliot -- Charlotte Brontë on stage: 1930s biodrama and the archive/museum performed / Amber K. Regis -- Part II: Textual legacies: influences and adaptations - 'Poetry, as I comprehend the word' : Brontë 's lyric afterlife / Anna Barton -- The legacy of Lucy Snowe: reconfiguring spinsterhood and the Victorian family in inter-war women's writing / Emma Liggins -- Hunger, rebellion and rage: adapting Villette / Benjamin Poore -- The ethics of appropriation; or, the 'mere spectre' of Jane Eyre : Emma Tennant's Thornfield Hall, Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair and Gail Jones's Sixty Lights / Alexandra Lewis - 'The insane Creole' " the afterlife of Bertha Mason / Jessica Cox -- Jane Eyre's transmedia lives / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- 'Reader, I [shagged/beat/whipped/f***d/rewrote] him' : the sexual and financial afterlives of Jane Eyre / Louisa Yates.