Brewster, Scott. “Borderline Experience: Madness, Mimicry And Scottish Gothic.” Gothic Studies 7.1 (2005): 79-86. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Jan. 2016. Scott Brewster, in his essay named “Borderline Experience: Madness, Mimicry, and Scottish Gothic”, examines Julia Kristeva’s notion of ‘borderline’ experience (in reference to borderline personality disorder) and utilizes it to analyze James Hogg’s The […]
Sarah Miles’s annotated bibliography, first published here. Clark, Micael M. “Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ and the Grimms’ Cinderella.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 40.4 (2000): 695-710. Web. 25 Nov. 2015. In “Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ and the Grimms’ Cinderella,” Micael Clark explores beyond the obvious parallels of Jane Eyre and the Brothers Grimms’ “Cinderella.” Clark begins his […]
Annotated Bibliography Duncan, Ian. “‘A Great, a Transcendent Sinner’: Hogg and the Fables of Romanticism.” Studies in Hogg and His World (2012). 22: 1-18. Web. 19 Nov. 2015. In Duncan’s literary criticism of Hogg’s work, he reflects that there is a Romantic reading of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. More specifically, […]
Annotated Bibliography: Jane Eyre Katie Ludwig Source 1: In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë focuses the discussion of biblical disability on the spiritual role of sight, blindness and madness, and on the physical body’s relationship to the spiritual self. Joshue argues that in Jane Eyre, if we recognize Brontë’s consistent redemptionist agenda in her selection […]
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 […]
Beattie, Valerie. “The Mystery at Thornfield: Representations of Madness in Jane Eyre.” Studies in the Novel 28.4 (1996): 493-505. Print. This article by Beattie is thorough and complex, with the core of the text focusing on the role of Bertha in the novel and what her madness says about feminism and the plot. She […]
Wentz, Richard E. Why People Do Bad Things in the Name of Religion. Macon, Ga.: Mercer UP, 1993. Print. When most of today’s religions advocate peace and personal fulfillment, why do people do bad things in the name of religion? Richard E. Wentz explores this titular question using his vast knowledge of religious history and […]
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 […]
Duncan, Ian. “Fanaticism And Civil Society: Hogg’s Justified Sinner.” Novel: A Forum On Fiction 42.2 (2009): 343-348. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Nov. 2015. James Hogg’s novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, according to Duncan in his article, is a direct challenge to the 18th century liberals of British fiction during […]
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 […]
Earnshaw, Steven. “‘Give Me My Name’: Naming and Identity In and Around Jane Eyre.” Bronte Studies 37.3 (2012): 174-89. JSTOR [JSTOR]. Web. 21 Nov. 2015. In Steven Earnshaw’s article “‘Give Me My Name’…”, he analyzes the symbolism and the important role that names play in the novel of Jane Eyre. Earnshaw starts by hinting at […]
1. “The Harmonious Fusion of Literary Spirit and Religious Feelings of Jane Eyre” by Zeng Lijuan This article analyzes characters from the novel and discusses whether these characters have an impact on Jane’s spiritual growth throughout the novel. The first character discussed is Jane’s friend Helen. She is the one that causes Jane to consider […]
1. Earnshaw, S. (2011). ‘Truelove’: Names and Jane Eyre. Brontë Studies, 36(4), 384-387. doi: 10.1179/147489311X13134031101455 Much as the name of this article suggests, its large focus is around the naming of the “important” characters in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Contrary to Georgia Dunbar’s opinion that the name have no significance, Earnshaw believes they were chosen with […]
Griesinger, E. (2008). Charlotte Bront?’s religion: Faith, feminism, and Jane Eyre. Christianity and Literature, 58(1), 29-59. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database. (Accession No. 35451535) This article sought to offer a feminist approach when it comes to looking at the religious experiences the women of the novel experience. Griesinger begins by laying down a […]
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 […]
This source is a dissertation on the ambiguity of the narrative of the editor and Robert. Mandel talks about how the editor’s narrative is satirical and humorous and his main purpose is to show Wringham as a madman. I agree that the editor adds his own opinions in the story, which do try to frame […]
Yildirim, Askun Haluk. “The Woman Question and The Victorian Literature on Gender.” (2012): 45-53. Web. 17 Nov. 2015. http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3-505c-4b75-a8fd-1d9ed18daf0d%40sessionmgr4004&hid=4106 This source talks about the gender roles of women during the Victorian Era. It talks about the common beliefs surrounding gender in that time people and how the roles for women were starkly different from the […]
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 […]
Alexander, Christine. “’That kingdom of gloom:’ Charlotte Bronte, the Annuals, and the Gothic”. Nineteenth Century Literature. Cengage Learning. Inc. March 1993. Author Christine Alexander examines the Gothic experiences that Jane has that can relate to Charlotte Bronte’s own life. Giving evidence showing how Jane is a double for Bronte starts the discussion of the Gothic […]
The High Priest Ata’Halne sat in the back of his canoe. His feeble but tall legs stretched out and tried to fit. This was the first year he had had to replace the canoe and it still did not feel right, physically or emotionally. He had taken the old canoe on every annual trip to […]
The day began as any other as mother called me to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. I slithered to the side of my bed, stretched my toes to the floor, and lifted my frame to full height. Upon shuffling toward my wash basin, I glanced to the wall adjacent to my doorway. As I […]
To All Who Care To Know Our Story, Abandonment – the few of us left on the island… this is what we were facing – complete and total abandonment. A whirlwind of events had led to this moment, and now we were justly facing our fates for the crime we had committed against our captain […]
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, […]
The Sea. The most unforgiving highway you could travel. It spared no one; there were no kind favors that it granted. You could not coax the roaring waves to do your bidding or to allow you to safely cross over. Your fate was decided by these waves, you either got out alive or you were […]
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 […]
How does a man fall to such wretchedness that he outlives his three sons? Kreutznaer thought, as he lay in his bed laboring for each breath. His wife had died a few years prior and left him to wallow in regret. Sickness settled into his old bones too and he feared that he would be […]
I should have known that I was going to get myself into trouble. I always seem to. It’s just that my natural curiosity gets the better of me and I need to know. Mother always said that one day I was going to land in a mess bigger than I could pull myself out of. […]
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 […]
“Ahhhhhhhh what is that?!” I heard my mother cry out from the living room as I sat on my bed working on my embroidery. Curious as what could have possibly caused her so much distress I set down my embroidery and marched into the living room where I saw my father holding what appeared to […]
Blazing colors of pink, orange, and red mixed and swirled together in the evening sky as I walked home from work. It was a long, hard day of labor, and I looked forward to being with my family. But as I hurriedly walked, I frantically looked all around me to ensure my safety. You see, […]
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 […]
Off in the distance, there had been a storm, but we just ignored it. It had not affected us in any serious way. For me, I guess I would say that if it didn’t bother us, then there was no reason to pay any mind to it. But then, the rumbling happened late that night. […]
These milk-skinned savages have backed me into a corner in which I can see no escape. They have taken all that was dear to me, save my precious Imoinda. They seek to keep us both confined to this foreign land, despite my many pleas for liberation from our enslavement. I have tired of these false promises […]
(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 […]
His royal majesty, Gulbasto Murmaran Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, had been born in typical Lilliputian fashion in the royal chambers of the capital’s birthing room under the eyes of the court’s many dignitaries, hurgos, and a small number of menlulare (honored guests). His highness, Gulbasto, was said immediately to have the unique aura […]
I have hunted for white tail deer most of my life, so I have pretty good understanding of them. Moreover I have an extensive knowledge of their anatomy due to field dressing, and unfortunately I have an extensive knowledge of what a full stomach emptied looks likes. I would encourage you never to field dress […]
In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Dorian becomes transfixed with jewels in chapter 11. For this blog post, I researched one specific person Dorian discussed within the novel. I researched the alchemist, Pierre de Boniface. In chapter 11 of the novel Wilde writes, “According to the great alchemist, Pierre de Boniface, the […]
Jessica Wolfe, author of Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature, gave a very insightful lecture on mystical creatures in our British Lit class at UWGB recently. Wolfe’s powerpoint and lecture on beasts in books really fascinated me. One thing that stuck out to me within her presentation was the way she explained that the depiction of the […]
One of the main things learned from our guest speaker (Professor Wolfe) is how widely believed that the people who lived in the Middle Ages believed in Mythical Beasts. We see such references in media, such as movies, and in some Shakespearean plays where many characters are quick to believe fantastical tales. However I never […]
The Picture of Dorian Gray has a lot of different film adaptations. When I was looking at movies to use for this post, I ended up finding ten and I think there may even be more I did not find. This does not surprise me considering how popular this book is. Putting all the movies […]
In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Dorian becomes transfixed with jewels in chapter 11. For this blog post, I decided to research one specific jewel that Dorian discussed within the novel. I chose to analyze the amethyst gemstone. It’s surprising how relevant this gemstone is to the themes within the novel.
After speaking with Thomas Tierney and Jeffrey Haddow about their musical adaptation of At the Back of the North Wind, I found a few similarities and differences. At the Back of the North Wind is a beautiful story describing a young boy’s relationship with the possibility of nearing death. The North Wind is the ideology […]
Within a Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens likes to show the good qualities of the characters in his text. He does so by showing the characters using form of sacrifice, which helps the people most important to them. In the beginning of the novel, Dickens uses many forms of sacrifice through his characters. Even […]