Category: Charlotte Bronte
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Madwomen in Attics and the Academy
I was intrigued to see that York University is creating a new Mad Studies hub. I’m hoping that this will take a disability studies “nothing about us, without us” (Tom Shakespeare) approach. But I worry because of what Shakespeare and Eva Feder Kittay, among many others, have described. People who have intellectual/cognitive and mental/psychiatric disabilities…
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Jane Eyre and Unreliable Female Narrators: The Bête Noire of Contemporary Thrillers
“Reader, I married him,” Jane Eyre tells us. “A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” Guests are out of the question, of course. When one’s first attempt at nuptials has been interrupted by a series of events including, but not limited to, the groom’s mad first wife…
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Charlotte Brontë and Crime Fiction
I’ll be teaching Jane Eyre in a few weeks, so I just went hunting for my old notes from studying, writing about, and–so I thought–teaching the novel. I had a distinct recollection of teaching it once, when I covered for a Victorian fiction professor who was on leave. I took over in late January, and…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 