On Eyre: The Flight of Gemma Hardy
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Even though we've technically finished up our reading of Jane Eyre, we feel like the season isn't quite complete without a look at the many adaptations of the text. Over the next few months, we'll be looking a few examples and asking the question 'what do these teach us about the original text?'
The first episode of this short series is all about The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey, and we were lucky enough to get Margot Livesey herself to speak with us about the book. Vanessa and Margot discuss 'why do people keep coming back to this text?' and 'what are the hardest things in this text to modernize?'
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, we wanted to let you know that in partnership with the Fetzer Institute, |
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| 0:41.3 | One of the ways that I have come to define a sacred text is that it has to be generative. |
| 0:48.3 | Something sacred should inspire, assays poetry, conversation, fanfiction. |
| 0:55.0 | If a text stops our thinking, makes our thinking more single-minded, then it's profane, not sacred. |
| 1:02.5 | Jane Eyre meets this criteria of being generative by leaps and bounds. |
| 1:08.4 | Jane Eyre has been made into eight silent film adaptations in between 1910 and 1926 alone, |
| 1:16.8 | and at least 17 talkies since then. |
| 1:20.7 | And that's not mentioning the radio plays, the stage adaptations, the TV adaptations, |
| 1:25.6 | the bellays, and even in one case, the musical. |
| 1:31.0 | The reason I think that Jane Eyre should continue to be on the forefront of our minds |
| 1:36.0 | is because I think we should measure a book by the conversations that happen around it. |
| 1:41.8 | And part of the conversation around Jane Eyre are its dozens and dozens of adaptations. |
| 1:50.1 | So that's what the next several episodes of on-air will be. |
| 1:56.0 | I will be exploring various adaptations of Jane Eyre in conversation with fellow fans, |
| 2:02.0 | some scholars, and when we can get them, like we could this week, the creators themselves. |
| 2:08.8 | I'm Vanessa Zoltan, and this is on-air from Houghton-Bothered. |
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