A couple of new Brontë-related papers just published:
Sarah Shoemaker’s Mr. Rochester, a recent adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, disputes understandings of women’s selfhood as promoted by Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. By attributing the cause of Bertha Mason’s mental illness to disrupted maternity and not allowing her to articulate her loss fully to a compassionate listener, Shoemaker’s adaptation upholds the Victorian gender ideals which Brontë’s novel challenges and ignores the efforts of Wide Sargasso Sea to allow Bertha a voice. The positive reception of Mr. Rochester among readers signals that the politics of a source text may matter less than characters and plot to readers and writers of neo-Victorian adaptations. To understand how and why the reading public values Victorian novels today, scholars must critically examine adaptations and their fidelity to their source texts.
YuJie Dong
Insight Series
Jane Eyre is a famous work by British female writer Charlotte Brontë, and it is also an autobiographical work. The heroine Jane Eyre, has grown into an independent, self-respecting woman in constant resistances. Jane Eyre’s strong and unyielding spirit of resistance reflects her invincible inner personality charm. She has a unique thinking about women’s destiny, value, status, a rational understanding to their own thoughts and personality, and a firm pursuit of their own happiness and emotion. From all of these we can see Jane Eyre also represents the new image of today's women. This dissertation intends to start with Jane Eyre's three struggles, analyze the character image of Jane Eyre, and explore the feminist thoughts behind it.
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