Overview
- First book to explore the relationship between the writing of the young Brontës and Mary and Percy Shelley
- Examines the texts read by the Brontë siblings and how this influenced their juvenilia
- Offers insights into the early nineteenth-century literary marketplace, which maintained Romantic affinities
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print (PERCP)
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Keywords
- Romanticism
- Victorian Literature
- Juvenilia
- Women's writing
- Reading
- Intertextuality
- Novel
About this book
This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed examination of the Shelleyan narrative accessible to the Brontës from their childhood to their final novels, this study argues for a fresh perspective on the Brontës' engagement with the Shelleys in both their juvenilia and later seven novels. In this respect, the book considers the Brontës as readers rather than exclusively as writers, viewing them as a product of the early nineteenth-century literary marketplace which maintained affinities to Romanticism. Reading, rewriting, and appropriating the textual Shelleys was a fundamental vein stemming the Brontës’ writing from childhood, with Mary epitomising the model for what the sisters would eventually become: the female novelist.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Julie Elizabeth Young is an alumna of the University of Cambridge, currently working as independent researcher. As a teaching affiliate, she has taught undergraduate students at the University of Nottingham. She has also undertaken professional archival research in British universities, in archives at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and in an archive in Paris.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Shelleyan Brontës
Book Subtitle: Mary and Percy Shelley in the Work of the Brontës
Authors: Julie Elizabeth Young
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56051-4Due: 23 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56054-5Due: 23 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56052-1Due: 23 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6516
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6524
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: I, 238