“He is rather peculiar, perhaps”: Reading Mr Rochester’s coarseness queerly

This article re-examines the accusation of coarseness directed at Edward Fairfax Rochester, the male protagonist of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Elizabeth Rigby condemned Rochester as coarse for challenging normative modes of male gender and sexuality. In re-thinking Rigby’s critique, this p...

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Main Author:	Claire O'Callaghan
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2018
Subjects:	Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Queer Masculinity Coarse Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/34724
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