时间：2026年3月26日13：30

地点：恕园19-205

主讲内容：

It is a commonplace among Victorianists that the early reception of Jane Eyre has been mapped comprehensively as part of the foundational work that informed Elizabeth Gaskell’s Life of Brontë but also subsequent (mostly feminist) critiques that cast the novel as promoting a version of Jane’s self that was at once rebellious and potentially dangerous to society. Such ground-breaking volumes of reception-related documentary evidence as Miriam Allott’s Critical Heritage volume, as well as the edition of the collected letters of Charlotte Brontë, have consolidated the impression that the early reception of Jane Eyre has been studied exhaustively. This is far from the truth, however, and this lecture will introduce a body of evidence derived from more than 30 book reviews of the novel that have not previously been considered by scholars. It will provide a reassessment of some of the assumptions that have underpinned even the most recent work on Jane Eyre and offer an alternative reading history by recovering the voices of its earliest readers.

主讲人简介：

Sandro Jung is Distinguished Professor of the Major National Talent Programme of the Ministry of Education, Grade II Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, doctoral/post-doctoral supervisor, and Director of the university-level Foreign Languages and Literature Institute at Fudan University. He is also Jack Ma Distinguished Professor at Hangzhou Normal University. Jung has been the Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly A&HCI journal, ANQ (Routledge / Taylor & Francis) for the past 14 years and also serves as Associate Editor of the A&HCI journal, The Explicator (Routledge / Taylor & Francis). His main areas of scholarly interest are the literature, culture, and media of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, book and reception history, translation studies, and visual culture (and especially illustration) studies. He has produced more than 250 publications, including more than 150 A&HCI articles. His two latest monographs, Eighteenth-Century Illustration and Literary Material Culture and Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, were published by Cambridge University Press in 2023 and 2025 respectively. His next monograph, Illustrating Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield, 1780-1860, will be published by Cambridge UP next year.