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✍🏼 benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 why read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?
2:00 on the first reading experience
3:00 making the acquaintance of Currer Bell
5:00 fiction as a lie that tells the truth
6:00 getting to know the Brontë sisters
8:00 life in the village of Haworth
9:00 poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
10:00 how the Brontës created their own worlds
12:00 reading the Bronte sisters collectively
13:00 composition and publication of Jane Eyre
14:00 Charlotte Brontë keeps her identity secret
16:00 ‘allow me to introduce you to Jane Eyre’
17:00 ‘when we are struck at without a reason…’
18:00 channeling romantic longings into art
20:00 unrequited love in Charlotte Brontë’s letters
24:00 Charlotte Brontë biography recommendations
26:00 comparing Rochester and Heathcliff
27:00 reading and writing as vicarious experience
28:00 the rich imagination of Charlotte Brontë
30:00 on the gothic elements in Jane Eyre
32:00 gothic, secrets, and antiquated spaces
33:00 Edward Rochester as byronic protagonist
35:00 influence of the Romantics on Brontë
36:00 Brontë’s desire to create a plain heroine
39:00 sympathising with the central protagonist
41:00 ‘millions are in silent revolt against their lot’
44:00 the novel’s powerful cry for equality
45:00 connecting to the quest for self identity
46:00 governesses, marriage, and self-mastery
48:00 orphan status and the human condition
50:00 relationship between reader and writer
51:00 the heroine’s psychological complexity
53:00 ‘conventionality is not morality…’
54:00 violating every code human and divine
55:00 recommended editions of Jane Eyre
56:00 the theme and structure of Jane Eyre
57:00 recommended reading pace for Jane Eyre
59:00 Jane Eyre as immersive reading experience
1:00:00 thank you and preparatory questions for you
📚 Read the Great Books with Hardcore Literature: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature
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🎙️ open.spotify.com/show/70IZA248yNVkrjqzDNm6Lt (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify)
🏫 hardcore-university.teachable.com (Hardcore University, Exam Preparation Courses)
✍🏼 benjaminmcevoy.com My Personal Website
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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 why read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?
2:00 on the first reading experience
3:00 making the acquaintance of Currer Bell
5:00 fiction as a lie that tells the truth
6:00 getting to know the Brontë sisters
8:00 life in the village of Haworth
9:00 poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
10:00 how the Brontës created their own worlds
12:00 reading the Bronte sisters collectively
13:00 composition and publication of Jane Eyre
14:00 Charlotte Brontë keeps her identity secret
16:00 ‘allow me to introduce you to Jane Eyre’
17:00 ‘when we are struck at without a reason…’
18:00 channeling romantic longings into art
20:00 unrequited love in Charlotte Brontë’s letters
24:00 Charlotte Brontë biography recommendations
26:00 comparing Rochester and Heathcliff
27:00 reading and writing as vicarious experience
28:00 the rich imagination of Charlotte Brontë
30:00 on the gothic elements in Jane Eyre
32:00 gothic, secrets, and antiquated spaces
33:00 Edward Rochester as byronic protagonist
35:00 influence of the Romantics on Brontë
36:00 Brontë’s desire to create a plain heroine
39:00 sympathising with the central protagonist
41:00 ‘millions are in silent revolt against their lot’
44:00 the novel’s powerful cry for equality
45:00 connecting to the quest for self identity
46:00 governesses, marriage, and self-mastery
48:00 orphan status and the human condition
50:00 relationship between reader and writer
51:00 the heroine’s psychological complexity
53:00 ‘conventionality is not morality…’
54:00 violating every code human and divine
55:00 recommended editions of Jane Eyre
56:00 the theme and structure of Jane Eyre
57:00 recommended reading pace for Jane Eyre
59:00 Jane Eyre as immersive reading experience
1:00:00 thank you and preparatory questions for you
