With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
3 weeks ago
‘Damned in Dickens’, perhaps, where the layabout 21st century videogame addict tumbles back in time to a Victorian era workhouse to see what hard graft is really like. Or ‘The Full Bronte’ where modern-day Yorkshire steel-working strippers wander into some bad 18th century weather looking tortured, haunted and angry.Now that would be an original take on the Brontës, that's for sure.
Or perhaps not.
Meanwhile, in the Penguin Classic edition of Jane Eyre, when Jane says of her aunt, “But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did,” the editor is ready with a footnote, lest the reader miss that Jesus likewise forgave his persecutors. Similarly are half a dozen references to the Sermon on the Mount faithfully footnoted, so the reader will catch their import. [...]We don't really get that last bit, though. Footnotes are heaven-sent indeed, and not just when they are about religion. Many in Jane Eyre correspond to contemporary books or customs of the time or anything that might help the reader understand the novel as a contemporary of the author would. Not just because of the gap in time, but also because there are readers all around the world reading the classics, not just Westerners who may or may not have a better Christian background.
If you don’t understand Christian dogma, as it turns out, then you won’t really understand Dracula or Jane Eyre, which perhaps explains the illegible introductions prepended to each of their Penguin Classic editions. (Tony Woodlief)
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