A breath of fresh Eyre : intertextual and intermedial reworkings of Jane Eyre / edited by Margarete Rubik, Elke Mettinger-Schartmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubik, Margarete, 1950-

Mettinger-Schartmann, Elke.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 111.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century.

English literature.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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, creating a dense intertextual web. The essays collected in this volume do justice to the variety of media involved in the Jane Eyre reworkings, by covering narrative, visual and stage adaptations, including an adaptor’s perspective. Contributions review a diverse range of works, from postcolonial revision to postmodern fantasy, from imaginary after-lives to science fiction, from plays and Hollywood movies to opera, from lithographs and illustrated editions to comics and graphic novels. The volume thus offers a comprehensive collection of reworkings that also takes into account recent novels, plays and works of art that were published after Patsy Stoneman’s seminal 1996 study on Brontë Transformations .

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann

The Strange After-Lives of Jane Eyre / Barbara Schaff

The Future That Has Happened: Narrative Freedom and Déjà lu in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea / Bárbara Arizti

Landscape and Character in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea / Thomas Loe

The Intertextual Status of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: Dependence on a Victorian Classic and Independence as a Post-Colonial Novel / Wolfgang G. Müller

‘The Second Mrs. Rochesters’: Telling Untold Stories of Jane Eyre’s (Im-)Possible Married Lives / Ines Detmers

Pathologies of Sexuality, Empire and Slavery: D.M. Thomas’s Charlotte / Sue Thomas

Brontë Badland: Jane Eyre reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie’s Coldwater / Maggie Tonkin

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 / Ursula Kluwick

Jane Eyre in Outer Space: Victorian Motifs in Post-Feminist Science Fiction / Jürgen Wehrmann

Invasions into Literary Texts, Re-plotting and Transfictional Migration in Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair / Margarete Rubik

A Parallelquel of a Classic Text and Reification of the Fictional – the Playful Parody of Jane Eyre in Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair / Katrin Thomas and Mark Berninger

An Eyre-Less Affair? Jasper Fforde’s Seeming Elision of Jane / Juliette Wells

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 / Verena-Susanna Nungesser

“Picturing in me a hero of romance”: The Legacy of Jane Eyre’s Byronic Hero / Sarah Wootton

Children in the Jane Eyre Films / Carol M. Dole

Reader, She Married Him: Abridging and Adapting Jane Eyre for Children and Young Adults / Marla Harris

Jane Eyre for Young Readers: Three Illustrated Adaptations / Norbert Bachleitner

Jane Eyre Illustrated / Michaela Braesel

Paula Rego’s Visual Adaptations of Jane Eyre / Aline Ferreira

Myth-making Opera: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley’s Jane Eyre / Walter Bernhart

The Madwoman in the Classic: Intermediality, Female Subjectivity, and Dance in Michael Berkeley’s Jane Eyre / Bruno Lessard

Mad Intertextuality: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, After Mrs Rochester / Jarmila Mildorf

“From a Land of Hot Rain and Hurricanes” – Polly Teale’s Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre / Kathleen Starck

John Brougham’s Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre – a Marxist Reading of Brontë’s Novel? / Elke Mettinger-Schartmann

Blasting Jane: Jane Eyre as an Intertext of Sarah Kane’s Blasted / Rainer Emig

Reader: Who Wrote You? An Autocritical Exercise upon Jane Eyre / Michelene Wandor.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-26575-X

9786612265754

94-012-0447-0

1-4356-1257-4

OCLC:

182828720

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204477 DOI