A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family.

Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the familys continuing influenceFeatures in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the worldAddresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reformIncorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

Diane Long Hoeveler is Professor of English at Marquette University, USA. She has published widely on a variety of topics within literature, including gothic and religious transformations, romanticism and gender, and women writers in the nineteenth century. Most recently, she is author ofThe Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1770-1870 (2014) andGothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820(2010), which shared the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Award from the International Gothic Association.  She is co-editor ofthe three-volumeTheEncyclopedia of Romantic Literature (with Burwick and Goslee, Wiley Blackwell, 2012) . Hoeveler served as President of the International Conference of Romanticism from 2001-2003, and is now co-editor of theEuropean Romantic Review.