intertextual and intermedial reworkings of Jane Eyre
Published:
2007
Publisher:
Rodopi, Amsterdam
Ever since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre - one of the most popular English novels of all time - has fascinated scholars and a wide reading public alike and has proved a source of inspiration to successive generations of creative writers and...
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Ever since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre - one of the most popular English novels of all time - has fascinated scholars and a wide reading public alike and has proved a source of inspiration to successive generations of creative writers and artists. There is hardly any other hypotext that has been re-worked in so many adaptations for stage and screen, has inspired so many painters and musicians, and has been so often imitated, re-written, parodied or extended by prequels and sequels. New versions in turn refer to and revise older rewritings or take up suggestions from Brontë scholarship, c
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A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre; Table of Contents; Introduction; Prologue A General Survey; The Strange After-Lives of Jane Eyre; Part I Novel Adaptations; The Future That Has Happened: Narrative Freedom and Déjà lu in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea; Landscape and Character in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea; The Intertextual Status of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: Dependence on a Victorian Classic and Independence as a Post-Colonial Novel; 'The Second Mrs. Rochesters': Telling Untold Stories of Jane Eyre's (Im-)Possible Married Lives
Pathologies of Sexuality, Empire and Slavery: D.M. Thomas's CharlotteBrontë Badland: Jane Eyre reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie's Coldwater; Jane's Angry Daughters: Anger in Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall, Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy; Jane Eyre in Outer Space: Victorian Motifs in Post-Feminist Science Fiction; Invasions into Literary Texts, Re-plotting and Transfictional Migration in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair
A Parallelquel of a Classic Text and Reification of the Fictional - the Playful Parody of Jane Eyre in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre AffairAn Eyre-Less Affair? Jasper Fforde's Seeming Elision of Jane; From Thornfield Hall to Manderley and Beyond: Jane Eyre and Rebecca as Transformations of the Fairy Tale, the Novel of Development, and the Gothic Novel; Part II Visual Adaptations - Film and other Pictorial Media; "Picturing in me a hero of romance": The Legacy of Jane Eyre's Byronic Hero; Children in the Jane Eyre Films
Reader, She Married Him: Abridging and Adapting Jane Eyre for Children and Young AdultsJane Eyre for Young Readers: Three Illustrated Adaptations; Jane Eyre Illustrated; Paula Rego's Visual Adaptations of Jane Eyre; Part III Stage Adaptations - Opera and Drama; Myth-making Opera: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley's Jane Eyre; The Madwoman in the Classic: Intermediality, Female Subjectivity, and Dance in Michael Berkeley's Jane Eyre; Mad Intertextuality: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, After Mrs Rochester; "From a Land of Hot Rain and Hurricanes" - Polly Teale's Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre
John Brougham's Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre - a Marxist Reading of Brontë's Novel?Blasting Jane: Jane Eyre as an Intertext of Sarah Kane's Blasted; Epilogue A Dramatiser's Point-of-View; Reader: Who Wrote You? An Autocritical Exercise upon Jane Eyre; Notes on Contributors
