Inheriting the victorians : the Revival of Jane Eyre in Jasper Fforde's the Eyre Affair

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This paper is concerned with novelistic refashioning of the nineteenth century as a significant trend in postmodern literature.

Acknowledged as an innovative literary technique, rewriting has increasingly been used by many postmodern British novelists to engage critically with Victorian texts.

This article focuses on the process of the postmodern rewriting of the Victorian text by addressing the novels of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (2001).

Its main purpose is to investigate why the Victorian in particualr holds such an attraction for the postmodernist writers.

Our aim is to reveal the numerous similarities between the two novels.

What qualities have been orbed and what have been excluded.