A new example of recent Brontë scholarship:
Alexander Greenhough, Stanford University, USA
The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory
Volume 5, Issue 1, August 2024
What does Jane Eyre look like? That is: her face, her expressions. In the character’s own
assessment, she’s “plain.” Rather than providing a detailed description, Charlotte Brontë offers a
subjective judgment, prompting readers to consider the use of first-person narration, and its
effect on their feelings for, and identification with, a fictional person. Widely, continuously, and
deeply read across generations in numerous editions, versions, and translations, Brontë’s
immensely popular novel is, as one critic puts it, a “classic classic” (Hopkins 54). The
eponymous heroine and Rochester have been reimagined many times in the mind’s eye from the
page. The pair have also been depicted visually, proliferating over decades in illustrations, book
covers, theatrical and operatic productions, and on millions of screens.
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