A contributor to
Reactor Mag discusses 'The Comfort (and Discomfort) of Retellings'.
What new dimensions are there to the rules and obstacles in love when Romeo is a woman, or trans, or of a different race or class? How do we look at Medusa when retold as a story about gendered power and monstrosity? How is the mad savage wife reframed when her madness is explored in the context of alienation and patriarchy, as in the equally classic Jane Eyre retelling, Wide Sargasso Sea? Plus, whether Jordan with Daisy, or Jane Eyre with mad wife Bertha—as in L.L. McKinney’s Escaping Mr. Rochester—these reworkings also present the opportunity to place focus on two marginalized characters alongside each other, putting their solidarities, intersections, or even tensions in conversation as they both navigate a world set up against them. (Wen-yi Lee)
The Quadrangle features the book Education, Formation, and Reading in Fiction by Bridget Chalk.
“I noticed that many novels of education, or coming-of-age narratives, depicted schooling in a negative way,” Chalk wrote in an email to The Quadrangle. “Characters almost always had some core traumatic experience at school– from David Copperfield and Jane Eyre to more recent main characters in novels by Zadie Smith and Elena Ferrante. So I set out to see what other patterns I could find in these novels, and discovered that a majority of them posited reading (often reading fiction) as an alternative and positive form of individual education.” (Leyla J Mercado)
The Telegraph has selected 'Britain’s 15 greatest stately homes' and a Brontë-releated one gets an honourable mention in the hidden secrets category.
Honourable mention: Norton Conyers, North Yorkshire – its secret staircase, only discovered in 2004, is thought to have inspired Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Sarah Baxter)
Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights makes it onto
Ultimate Classic Rock's list of '60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature'.
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