Modelul victorian şi oglinzile sale postmoderne: Jane Eyre, Antoinette Cosway, Thursday Next
The Victorian Pattern and Its Postmodern Mirrors: Jane Eyre, Antoinette Cosway, Thursday Next

Summary/Abstract: Victorian fiction has always represented an aesthetic pattern for many English writers. Within this context, Charlote Brontë’s masterpiece, ”Jane Eyre”, has been constantly reinterpreted according to the specific tendencies of modernist or postmodernist tecniques in order to adecquately express the true spirit of each new cultural age. Virginia Woolf herself often underlined the importance of this text and of feminine fiction in general in the Victorian period, and also analyzed the influence of certain canonical Victorian writings on the literature of her own time. Later on, authors like Jean Rhys re-read and re-wrote the well-known doomed love story, nevertheless finding new points of interest, especially in the figure of the “mad woman in the attic”, Edward Rochester’s secret wife, who is turned into the most important character in the novel ”Wide Sargasso Sea”. Contemporary authors are still fascinated by the old story of Jane’s forbidden love, but they interpret everything in a postmodernist key, using the strategies of irony, parody and pastiche, as we can find in Jasper Fforde’s novel, ”The Eyre Affair”.

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