Monday, January 24, 2011

Hogwarts Professor: Discussions Regarding Jane Eyre

I thought that these links to the Hogwarts Professor website (which has a variety of articles on yes, Harry Potter -- as well many other works of literature and topics in popular culture) were interesting.

Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels, perhaps one of the most empowering, one of the most provocative, one of the most remarkable, and one of the most romantic (by which I mean creepy, mysterious and breathtaking, not necessarily the lovey-dovey kind that bespeaks of flowers and chocolates) works I have ever read.

These articles might shed some new light on a classic novel, so I'm posting them here.

Jane Eyre 1: “Once Upon a Time in Thornfield…” Reading Bronte’s ‘Jane Eyre’ as a Fairy Tale


Jane Eyre 2: Genre and Gender Revulsion and Consequent Critical Disdain for Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre 3: “Plain Jane” and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ideal of Beauty, Complexion to Corsets

Jane Eyre 4: Edward (Cullen) Rochester, I Presume? Twilight’s Jane Eyre Roots

Jane Eyre 5: Crossing the Threshold with Jane—The Novel’s Liminal Elements

Jane Eyre 6: Faith and Fairies – Conventional Spirituality versus What the Heart Hears

Jane Eyre 7: A Lesson on Authorial Intent from Jasper Fforde’s Literary Detective Thursday Next

That is all the links, so far. I don't know if the authors of these Jane Eyre discussions will continue to write some more articles and post them, but if they do, I'll try to post those links as well.

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