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How Jane Eyre Is Not Twilight
“Jane Eyre” provides a lesson in how to emerge whole from a toxic relationship.
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Jane Eyre: Poverty Is No Crime
Unemployed Americans are much more like Jane Eyre than hammock-seeking wastrels.
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“Jane Eyre” as Lenten Meditation
In Jane’s battle with St. John Rivers, we have material that helps us understand the true meaning of Lent.
Think of Writing Essays as Method Acting
To teach writing about literature, think of your students as method actors.
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Discovering the Bad Girl Within
My student’s project on literary bad girls looks at “Jane Eyre,” Toni Morrison’s “Sula,” and Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace.”
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Lit’s 10 Most Painful Marriage Proposals
Literature 10 most painful marriage proposals.
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Jane Eyre’s Critique of the 1%
The critique in “Jane Eyre” of privileged classes who attack the poor anticipates today’s political scene.
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Lit’s 10 Strongest Female Characters
Who are literature’s ten strongest female characters? Here’s my list.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged As You Like It, Daneil Defoe, Doll's House, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Mansfield Park, Moll Flanders, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Portrait of a Lady, Scarlet Letter, Wife of Bath, William Shakespeare Comments closed
