tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post1663711306388749130..comments2024-03-14T07:34:26.650+01:00Comments on BrontëBlog: Private AutobiographyCristinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14863082224534612494noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post-52830835147719619902015-05-26T03:58:48.630+02:002015-05-26T03:58:48.630+02:00I have read this book and must take issue with thi...I have read this book and must take issue with this comment.<br /><br />What the author writes about can be imagined from the original. Sexual sadism, homosexuality and mutual attraction weren’t invented by the current generation. Bronte couldn’t write openly about such issues in her time; but such things certainly existed. Harrison’s re-telling is not graphic or vulgar at all.<br /><br />The comment reminds one of the attitudes reflected in criticism of the original “Jane Eyre”:<br /><br />“Altogether the autobiography of Jane Eyre is pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition. . . . We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre.”<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16586584.post-72452369136660915502015-05-05T00:01:10.404+02:002015-05-05T00:01:10.404+02:00"From the sadistic torments she endured at Ga..."<i>From the sadistic torments she endured at Gateshead Hall to her sensual awakening at Lowood School,</i><br /><br />You mean being tortured by the Reeds in their special Red room didn't sensual awakening our Jane? <br /><br />Slow Jane! Dullard Jane! <br /><br />You need more whippings for that lol <br /><br />I'm so old, I remember when this would be called porn and attainable only at XXX book stores in the seedy part of town . Now it's called literature with a Kirkus Review! lol ( However the plain wrapper of earlier times has been retained ) <br /><br /><i>No lofty allusions to literature or theology will elevate my tale...</i><br /><br />lol Stop! You are killing me! My laugh lines are hurting! <br /><br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com