CHARLOTTE BRONTE’S JANE EYRE

Wyatt Barczak

SPECTRAL STRANGERS: TEACHERS

• Bronte at Roe Head and worked as a governess throughout Yorkshire

• “her heroines were not dedicated, earnest, enthusiastic teachers, but rather reluctant, depressed and generally rather anxious to get away from the job” (385) – The Escape Route

• The Romantic Ideal and The Rational Ideal

• “neither ‘family’ nor servant, and consequently is open to the hostility of both classes” (388) - The Stranger

• Teaching vs Learning

Nesta Devine’s

DISABILITY STUDIES• “opposed to this story of rampant autonomy: a history of mutual

dependency”

• “her unkempt hair, her plain straight gown, her discolored face” - Neglect vs Care

• The Ethics of Care

• A world where disability is the norm, but care is missing

Talia Schaffer’s

JANE EYRE AND TRANSLATION

• How do we translate the sublime?

• Cassius Longinus’ On the Sublime

• “The sublime is an affective response to an experience which gives rise to the feeling of transcendence. It is a notion of grandeur, awe and terror of the mind which may be represented in the literary writing style or in the content and scenery of the story. And it is the translator's task to recreate such "aesthetic qualia" in the transformation from one language to another.”

1. Forming great conceptions2. The capacity of vehement and inspired passion3. The due and natural formation of figures of bulkiness4. Noble diction5. Dignified and elevated composition

Ida Klitgard’s

WORKS CITED• Devine, Nesta. “Spectral Strangers: Charlotte Brontë’s Teachers.” Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol.

45, no. 4, Routledge, 2013, pp. 383–95, doi:10.1080/00131857.2012.718145.

• Schaffer, Talia. “Charlotte Brontë and Disability Studies.” Victorian Review, vol. 42, no. 2, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016, pp. 265–69, doi:10.1353/vcr.2016.0062.

• Klitgard, Ida. “Tweaking the Sublime: Translating the Poetics of the Sublime in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.” Journal of Comparative Literature & Aesthetics, vol. 43, no. 2, Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 2020, pp. 33–41.