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(Re)imagining the Brontës: Jane Eyre

3 weekly sessions online, on Thursdays at 6 - 8pm, starting from Thursday 5 November

Overview

This short course explores Jane Eyre and the novels legacy. We’ll dive deep into the original text, study the diverse history of adaptation, and explore the way that different writers have ‘written back to’ Jane Eyre

The course aims to enable students to contextualise Jane Eyre in its historical moment and understand its legacies. Student will gain a working knowledge of adaptations history for film and tv, learning how to use adaptation theories and basic film-studies approaches to analyse these works. Students will also understand some of the ways in which diverse writers have responded to Jane Eyre.

This course will be of interest to anyone interested in Jane Eyre and the Brontës. It will also be of interest to people interested in film and tv adaptations of ‘classic’ novels.

Syllabus

  • Week 1: Jane Eyre -Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
  • Week 2: Jane Eyre in Adaptation - Jane Eyre (dir. Robert Stevenson, 1943) - film Jane Eyre (dir. Susanna White, 2006) – mini-series
  • Week 3: Transforming Jane Eyre - Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jane Stubbs, Thornfield Hall (2014)

Course lecturer

Sam Hirst completed their PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University and later turned this research into their first book Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834. They are currently working on a book on demonic representation in Gothic fiction. They have published and spoken widely on the Gothic, popular romance, and theologies of the supernatural. They run the weekly lecture programme Romancing the Gothic which invites expert speakers from around the world on all topics more or less Gothic. They are also a regular collaborator with Newstead Abbey, Byron's ancestral home, and the Bronte Parsonage. They have taught English at the universities of Liverpool. Sheffield, Manchester Metropolitan and Oxford Brookes and have conducted post-doctoral research on Byron's life and legacy at the University of Nottingham.

Course fee

  • Standard fee: £50
  • Concession fee: £35