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Eyre Damer papers, MSS.0392
No full textAbstract: A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book "With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company," compiled and distributed by that firm.Scope and Content Note: A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book "With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company," compiled and distributed by that firm. It documents a trip by public health officials from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, in which Mobile journalist Eyre Damer participated, following the American yellow fever epidemic of 1905 which was blamed on fruit companies operating between Central America and various Southern ports. Damer's scrapbook includes unpublished photographs of participants as well as the printed text and photographs, plus materials by Damer including his accounts of the voyage which appeared in the Mobile Register, a subsequent speech about the trip to the Mobile Commercial Club, correspondence about the trip, souvenirs, business cards collected during the trip and at a reunion of the participants, and a biographical sketch of Damer from the Register.Biographical/Historical Note: Mobile, Alabama, journalist and author
Unlocked Study Guide: Jane Eyre : Guide
No full textThis guide also includes activities, relationship maps and glossaries to support learning, and can be used alongside the Unlocked: Jane Eyre video series.This guide also includes activities, relationship maps and glossaries to support learning, and can be used alongside the Unlocked: Jane Eyre video series.Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed August 24, 2022
Religion and Jane Eyre
No full textModern readers might be surprised to learn that the 1847 publication of Jane Eyre caused an uproar. Plenty of critics praised the novel’s author, but many of the loudest voices were shocked by its content. In a satirical essay the next year, Edwin Whipple surveyed the literary scene: England and the United States, he wrote, were “not many months ago . . . visited by a distressing mental epidemic, passing under the name of the ‘Jane Eyre Fever,’” which produced a widespread fervor of “moral and religious indignation.”1 Among other censures, The Christian Remembrancer had declared of the novel that “every page burns with moral Jacobinism,”2 while the Mirror Monthly Magazine had warned that “religion is stabbed in the dark.”3 Readers today often find the religiosity of Jane Eyre innocuous and its morality downright inspirational. So what were the Victorians so worked up about
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The Profession of the Author: Abstraction, Advertising, and Jane Eyre
No full textSince its publication in 1847, Jane Eyre has been read by its detractors and admirers as the portrayal of a willful female subject who claims her own identity. Readers have failed to note, however, that the most basic and encompassing marker of that identity, her name, tends to emerge when her will is most in abeyance. In this essay, I analyze abstraction through close readings of scenes of speech, writing, and advertising in Jane Eyre and through a consideration of Charlotte Bronte's dealings in the Victorian literary market. The concept of abstraction is crucial to understanding the relation of writing to female subjectivity in Jane Eyre and in Bronte's literary career because it mediates between apparently contradictory categories: embodiment and invisibility, self-effacement and self-advertisement, femininity and professional identity, fragmentation and wholeness, and profit and loss
Lucy Snowe : première réécriture de Jane Eyre
No full textWhile reading Villette, published by Charlotte Brontë in 1853, one cannot help thinking of Jane Eyre, the eponymous heroine of the novel published by the same author in 1847. The link means much more than the thematic and stylistic unity of a writer’s works. Lucy Snowe, the heroine of Villette, constitutes in fact the rewriting of Jane Eyre. Such rewriting is characterized by continuity as can be shown by the physical appearance, the strength of character and the progression of both heroines. However, there would be no interest in reproducing Jane Eyre identically and the outcome of the two novels presents a clear rupture, a rupture which has to be deciphered in order to understand the purpose of Charlotte Brontë in creating the filiation between Lucy Snowe and Jane Eyre
Lucy Snowe : première réécriture de Jane Eyre
No full textWhile reading Villette, published by Charlotte Brontë in 1853, one cannot help thinking of Jane Eyre, the eponymous heroine of the novel published by the same author in 1847. The link means much more than the thematic and stylistic unity of a writer’s works. Lucy Snowe, the heroine of Villette, constitutes in fact the rewriting of Jane Eyre. Such rewriting is characterized by continuity as can be shown by the physical appearance, the strength of character and the progression of both heroines. However, there would be no interest in reproducing Jane Eyre identically and the outcome of the two novels presents a clear rupture, a rupture which has to be deciphered in order to understand the purpose of Charlotte Brontë in creating the filiation between Lucy Snowe and Jane Eyre
Lucy Snowe : première réécriture de Jane Eyre
No full textWhile reading Villette, published by Charlotte Brontë in 1853, one cannot help thinking of Jane Eyre, the eponymous heroine of the novel published by the same author in 1847. The link means much more than the thematic and stylistic unity of a writer’s works. Lucy Snowe, the heroine of Villette, constitutes in fact the rewriting of Jane Eyre. Such rewriting is characterized by continuity as can be shown by the physical appearance, the strength of character and the progression of both heroines. However, there would be no interest in reproducing Jane Eyre identically and the outcome of the two novels presents a clear rupture, a rupture which has to be deciphered in order to understand the purpose of Charlotte Brontë in creating the filiation between Lucy Snowe and Jane Eyre
ELEMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN Ch. BRONTË`S NOVEL “JANE EYRE”
No full textStable interest of readers in the autobiographies of famous people encourages authors to find different ways of presence / absence of the author-narrator in the text, to balance the relationship between biographical truth and fiction in contradictory living conditions, etc., which gives rise to metagenres in literature. The study of the origins of autobiographical writing and the clarification of the actual genre specificity of works of an autobiographical nature, obviously, should be sought in the array of classical literature.
Works that are debatable in defining the genre need special attention.
Domestic and foreign researchers have repeatedly drawn attention to the distinction between the specifics of genres containing autobiographical data: a novel / the story is an autobiography, memoirs, a confessional novel, an autofiction, essays, diaries, etc., but the autobiography of Charlotte Brontë`s novel “Jane
Eyre”, originally called “Jane Eyre. Autobiography”, needs clarification. Therefore, the aim of the article is to
clarify the genre specifics and elements of biographical writing in Charlotte Brontë`s novel “Jane Eyre”.
Defining the genre of Charlotte Brontë`s novel “Jane Eyre” is problematic, as it is difficult to call it autobiographical, given that the author herself defined the genre of the work in the original title and, accordingly, was guided not so much by literary criteria as by her own understanding. All this determined the formulation of the purpose of the article to find out the genre specifics and elements of biographical writing
in Charlotte Brontë`s novel “Jane Eyre”.
The paper widely presents the positions of various scholars on the genre features of autobiographical
writing, analyzed their coincidences in the novel “Jane Eyre”. Attention is emphasized to the fact that we
have a number of indisputable facts-memories about the author’s childhood in a piece of writing, but they
are most likely a method of rethinking and self-knowledge of the writer, although there are moments of
authorial openness in the main character.
It turns out that it is impossible to determine definitively that the novel “Jane Eyre” is an autobiography.
However, this term is important for establishing theories about the biographical content of Ch. Brontë in
her novel. Newer genres, such as autofiction, have helped to define the process by which real aspects are
represented by fictional facts.
Given the various theories of research on the genre features of autobiography in a piece of writing,
including the relationship between author, character and narrator, the pact between reader and author
allows us to consider certain passages of “Jane Eyre” as a first-person narrative by Ch. Bront
[External Resource] Jane Eyre
No full textJane Eyre is a fictionalized autobiography of the author, who is orphaned at a young age and put in the custody of her cruel aunt. An escape leads her to the Lowood Institution, and she is trained to be a teacher, just as Charlotte was at the Cowan Bridge Institute. The rest of the book follows her teaching posts, including with the child of Mr. Rochester, where some romantic sparks light up
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