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Books and Literature. Literature Classics. Study now. See Answer. Best Answer. Gulliver's Travels. Study guides. Jane Eyre 21 cards. What was Jane Eyre's favorite book. Why is Jane so terrified when she is placed in the red-room. What did Mr Brocklehurst do to Jane. Who was Jane's student in her position as governess. Jane Eyre 20 cards. What alarmed Jane about her new friend Helen. Jane Eyre 22 cards. But The Eyre Affair stands apart from all of these, in my mind. It's funny, for one.
And it's not just about our favorite characters from the book doing other wacky things, it's about reading Jane Eyre. The Eyre Affair is the story of a woman named Thursday Next, who works as a literary detective.
It's set in a reality slightly apart from our own, where literature is a much bigger part of pop culture — people go to midnight showings of Shakespeare's Richard III like it's The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Thursday finds herself a bit out of her depth, however, when she discovers that she is able to "jump" into one of her favorite books, Jane Eyre.
She has the unique ability, it turns out, to read herself into fictional worlds. This comes in handy when Jane is kidnapped from the pages of her own novel, and Thursday must go in after her in the hope of saving her fictional life.
If it sounds silly It's a very fun, slightly silly read. But it's also a beautiful love letter to one of the first major novels to have a woman as its narrator.
John Rivers and join him as a dutiful missionary and To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. The marriage plot is a uniquely satisfying and enduring narrative. Meanwhile, their long, troubled trip to the altar provides the narrative thrust of the story. It was developed in 18th-century novels like Pamela and Clarissa , and it lives on today in romantic comedies and romance novels.
Instead of engaging in charged ballroom banter, they have hate sex. Of course that cad Wickham is a Nathaniel P. All you really have to do is update the brand names and the pop culture references. We love watching Lizzie and Darcy meet, despise each other, and fall in love, no matter what time period they live in. I mean gothic as in the literary form that developed in the 18th century out of the romantic tradition, all sublimated rage and sexuality hidden in secluded country houses where men with tragic dark pasts stood broodingly on the ramparts.
Flowers in the Attic is a trashy fave, but no one wants the Dollanganger siblings to get married. In Crimson Peak , the swoony, Rochester-quoting hero gets — spoiler alert — a knife to the face. In a contemporary gothic romance, you understand the attraction, but the narrative must condemn and thwart it. Jane Eyre never condemns the love story between Jane and Rochester, madwoman in the attic be damned. It never asks the reader to condemn the story, either.
So when you try to turn Jane Eyre into a contemporary romance, you have to fight against either the gothic elements or the marriage plot. The results are uncomfortable. You end up with books like Jane , a YA novel that recasts Rochester as a year-old rock star and Jane as his year-old nanny.
Even today, many readers will never forget the moment they first entered the strange, bleak world of this remarkable book. She began to write her second novel The Professor had just been rejected in August A year later it was done, much of it composed in a white heat. The reading public was spellbound. Thackeray's daughter says that the novel which was dedicated to her father "set all London talking, reading, speculating".
She herself reports that she was "carried away by an undreamed-of and hitherto unimagined whirlwind". First, the novel is cast, from the title page, as "an autobiography". This is a convention derived from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe No 2 in this series.
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