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While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe's lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights.

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? This takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded, demonstrating how romantic poets' preoccupation with voices is linked to a larger cultural anxiety abo...

Reveals how and why Brontë's novel won a huge following in Japan and has been reimagined by writers and manga artists

She links the collecting craze during the romantic era with the subsequent fetishization of romantic poets and their possessions, revealing the extent to which an ongoing fascination with material objects - with Keats's hair and Shelley's guitar, for example - helped to produce an enduring image of these poets as spiritual emissaries of a less materialistic age. In language both witty and idiosyncratic, Pascoe makes the case that the romantic ...

During her lifetime (1755-1831), English actress Sarah Siddons was an international celebrity acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines. We know what she looked like, but what of her famous voice, reported to cause audiences to hyperventilate or faint? In lively and engaging prose Judith Pascoe takes readers on a journey to discover how the actor's voice actually sounded.