Here is my contribution to this semester’s Collective Annotated Bibliography for Dr. Rebecca Nesvet’s Novels course! Dickson, Donald R. “In A Mirror That Mirrors The Soul: MASKS AND MIRRORS IN DORIAN GRAY.” English Literature In Transition, 1880-1920 26.1 (1983): 5-15. Humanities International Complete. Web. 28 Mar. 2016. This source is, quite frankly, incredible. It […]
Jane Eyre was written when the Bronte family became suddenly distressed, and the wounds from Brussels were not as fresh. Her family was not a very happy family, so it was wrong to assume that they were. The experience with Jane’s aunt and uncle could be seen as a representation of this. Charlotte began writing […]
Jnge, Christina J. “Jane Eyre’s Quest for Truth and Identity.” Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English 1.1 (2001): 14-19. This article is in reference to living in a society in which few women’s opinions were accounted for due to the superiority of men. Jnge depicts Jane as […]
Jane Eyre (Novel) Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1941. Print. Since Jane Eyre was published, it has been seen as the epitome of the Gothic novel and has since been transformed into countless modernizations, films, graphic novels, and even a video blog. Jane Eyre is a quiet, orphaned-turned governess who works for […]
Cadwallader, J. (2009). “‘Formed for labour, not for love’: plain jane and the limits of female beauty.” Bronte Studies. 34(3), 234-246. Doi:10.1179/147489309X12470507051788 Cadwallader writes that Charlotte Brontë was probably very familiar with fairy tales such as Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and […]
Each of the following sources were found at the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library. Fisher, Jerilyn. Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003. Print. While this source briefly covers the topic of femininity and masculinity represented in ninety-six critical essays, the theme of the “lens of gender” is an […]
Edgecombe, Rodney S. “Supplementary Annotations To Jane Eyre.” Bronte Studies 39.3 (2014): 187-190. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Nov. 2015. Although this is not an article I decided to include it as it is a very valuable source and can be used by anyone in this class that decided to use Jane Eyre for their […]
Annotated Bibliography Fielding, Penny. “The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Approaches.” The Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg (2012): 132-139. Fielding takes a multi view of the novel. She views the double through a psychoanalytic view by saying that infant humans have to learn to see themselves and acknowledge themselves in order to reach a […]
In part because of my Women in Literature class last Fall (coincidentally, also with Dr. Rebecca Nesvet), I was very much interested in looking at mental illness, disability, and, especially, the part(s) that Bertha Mason Antoinette [Cosway] plays in not only Jane Eyre, but also in the (sort of) prequel by Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (Which I […]
Rachel Clift Annotated Bibliography Source 1. Graphic Classics Jane Eyre Macdonald, Fiona, and Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Hauppauge, NY: Barrons Educational Series, 2009. Print. My first source is a graphic novel adaption of Jane Eyre done Published in 2009 by Graphic Classics. This is a good source because it shows one version of what […]
Jane Eyre Sources for Fellow Researchers: Pickrel, Paul. “Jane Eyre: The Apocalypse of the Body”. ELH 53.1 (1986): 165–182. Web. Paul Pickrel (1986) discusses the destruction, as well as construction of identity found within Jane Eyre. Pickrel argues that during Jane’s employment at Thornfield, Mr. Rochester implores Jane to bring him back to life; furthermore, Mr. Rochester […]
These white skinned men, I wonder where they have come from? Father told me that they were only to venture out to see where the buffalo were grazing, but they somehow managed to stumble upon these white men. Father said their camp was easy to overtake. He also said that they were attempting to grow […]
A Mission from God Robinson (Kreutznaer) Crusoe: Born the third son on the twenty-fifth of April, 1632 in York, England. Headstrong, arrogant, Impetuous, selfish…but hardworking when it came down to it; resourceful, practical, but a dreamer and adventurer in every sense. He would become a sailor, a businessman, a slave, a deserter, and a survivor […]
I The author tends the garden. Rumors float about. A halt at the wall. As I attended the impeccable conservatory that my mother gently planted with a variety of sorts 192 moons ago, I abruptly ceased my plucking and prodding on such a clear, blue day due to the ardent fact that there seemed to be a rather large commotion stirring about outside the […]
The following story was a recount of a grave day in a tribe’s history told generation from generation, to warn of the dangers of the white man and their God. I was one of the few that got away when that man slaughtered my family and friends during our ritual, of all of the times, […]
June 13, 1634 Day after each passing day, I grow more and more worried about what is to become of me and my family’s future. Yesterday, we had the terrible misfortune of hearing of own father had passed away. We grieve as a family for my father leaving us, but to myself, I grieve about […]
We let him believe he was the first. We let them all think they had been the first of their kind to grace our land. Sometimes of course, this involves a little lying on our part. The emperor thought this would be strategic and keep us safe. But other than the true first man, a […]
Reldresal, who had been in the middle of reviewing an aid grant application submitted by one of the more educated of the Lilliputian engineers, certainly wasn’t pleased to be standing in the middle of nowhere at such an hour, but the intrigue he held was one that could not be overlooked. It wasn’t every day […]
After the man-mountain had left for good, the Empress of Lilliput rejoiced. She was extremely glad to be rid of the inconsiderate giant of a man, and she’d hoped that he would leave ever since that horrible day when he used such indecent behavior as to put out the fire in her chambers using his […]
A Story from Grandpa By Rachel Clift My earliest memories are of sitting with my Grandfather and all the other little red squirrels while my parents and the other able bodied adults were out collecting food. He would stay with us kids and tell us all the stories about his life growing up. Grandpa had […]
Imoinda’s Lament The cold, metal chains are tight around my wrist, ankles, and neck. The slivers from the wooden wall on this ship are piercing the flesh on my back; yet, I do not move. I accept the pain and welcome the sensation as a distraction from me being haunted by my thoughts in this […]
(A conjuring twist on Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko) To be a man is to have power. As a woman, I’ve been treated as a commodity for my life’s entirety; though love has shown me mercy. In my native land of Coramantien, I had fallen in love in Prince Oroonoko, a man who saw me as an […]
Within The Once and Future King by T.H. White and Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, there are a number of relationships and networks that are similar. On particular are the family networks of the hateful Morgause in The Once and Future King and King Trom in Till We Have Faces. Both are similar […]
Nothing that’s beautiful hides its face- Till We Have Faces, C. S. Lewis (pg. 160) To be without a face is to be without an identity. Throughout literature, there is a common motif of being “veiled,” in which an unveiling one’s face allows for him to have an enlightenment, which he was blind to beforehand. […]
Jewels are some of the most sought after object in the world, aside from their exquisite beauty they each come with some sort of back story, myth, and history that adds to the allure of them. Within The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian conducts a study on many jewels and their own stories they have within […]
All art is quite useless. (Wilde, Pg. Viii) As humans, we experience life within the physical sphere called reality. We have the ability to physically experience the multifarious senses within our lives, varying from the nostalgic smells to delicious tastes, as well as have the gift of sight to view both beauty and catastrophe- so, […]
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other (pg. 8, A Tale of Two Cities). There is an air of mystery to every human being, which is overshadowed by a veil of identity within the public sphere, necessary to find a […]