Reading Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

A live online course on Jane Eyre begins today, September 25:

Reading Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Edward Mendelson

The Roundtable

The 92nd Street Y,

New York

Explore the depths of Brontë’s Jane Eyre with Edward Mendelson, Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

Course overview

Edward Mendelson, Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, returns to Roundtable for this close reading of the masterpiece Jane Eyre. Though the title is familiar to many, it is much more than the novel of love, loss, and marriage that everyone remembers reading as a teenager. Charlotte Brontë was a profound and unorthodox thinker about religion, politics, class, economics, medicine, education, and the worlds of nature and myth. Jane Eyre reflects that depth of thinking, offering a far deeper exploration of morality and society. Mendelson will lead you through the text in detail, exploring, among other things, some of its deeper meanings that no one noticed until more than a century after it first appeared in 1847.

This is a live, virtual course. Your purchase of this course includes interactive opportunities and unlimited, permanent access to recordings of each session.

Session 1

Chapters 1-15

Sep 25th 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM CEST

Duration 90 min

Session 2

Chapters 16-27

Oct 9th 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM CEST

Duration 90 min

Session 3

Chapters 28-38

Oct 16th 11:00 PM - 12:30 AM CEST

Duration 90 min