A couple of recent Brontë-related dissertations:
Bachelor Degree Thesis
Examining Childhood Resilience in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
A Psychoanalytic Critical Reading
by Emelie SegerDalarna University, 2022
The novel Jane Eyre, first published on 16th October 1847 by Charlotte Brontë under the pseudonym Currer Bell, is widely considered a classic. The novel sheds light on the Victorian woman and child, and their inner lives with genuine perspectives regarding their struggles with innate desires and social conditioning. The protagonist, Jane Eyre, is raised as an orphan by the Reeds family at Gateshead. After a conflict with the oldest child of the family and her cousin, John, she is sent to stay at Lowood school. The institute for orphaned girls is far from idyllic, and strict rules are implemented, such as emphasizing obedience, even in dress code and hairstyle. The novel has widely been discussed in relation to several genres, ranging from the Gothic novel to the Bildungsroman.
Yasmin de Souza Tosta
Universidad Federal do Paraná, 2021
This dissertation aims to carry out a comparative analysis between two novels: the first written by Charlotte Brontë, named Jane Eyre (1847), and the second, its Korean-Americanappropriation, Re Jane (2015) by Patricia Park. The purpose of this study is to understand the reconstruction of the female characters' bodies in Park’s appropriation, seeing that it was elaborated in the in-between (Bhabha, 2003), or on the borders/crossroads, according to to Anzaldúa (1987) of Korean and American cultures. For these purposes, we use Felski'stheoretical assumptions from Literature after Feminism (2003) in terms of female authorship and plot, based on the concepts of the feminist literary criticism scholarship. The first chapter is dedicated to authorship, taking into account the ideas on gender and performativity studied by Butler (2019). The second chapter focuses on the plot, as well as its structure and repetition. Re Jane's plot is considered an appropriation, a postcolonial critical practice of subversion of the traditional, imperialist and colonial canon. The analysis undertaken in the third chapter deals with the characterization and resignification of the characters in the rereading in relation to the first novel. We consider the typologies of female bodies and subjectivities in literature, conforming to Xavier (2021), investigating the pairs Jane Re and Jane Eyre, Beth and Bertha, Devon and Adèle, mothers (of both protagonists), and a singular Emo, Jane Re’s aunt.
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