#  (Re)reading "Jane Eyre": Novel Theology, a reading group led by Professor Amy Hollywood 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 1, 2023** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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  Weekly on Wednesday, starting from February 01, 2023, until February 08, 2023  

 



 

 



 

 

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##  [NOVEL THEORY](/novel-theory)

##  SPEAKER: Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School

 Continuing the Novel Theory seminar's ongoing investigation of how novels themselves do theory, we invite you to join us and Amy Hollywood for a reading group in which we'll revisit Charlotte Brontë's *Jane Eyre* and think about how that novel engages theology and what a "novel theology" might be.

 For our first meeting on February 1st, Professor Hollywood asks you to read the first 21 chapters of the novel, up to the death of Aunt Reed. We'll wrap up our discussion in a second session on February 8th, when we'll engage the second half of the novel.

###  About the Speaker

 Amy Hollywood came to the Harvard Divinity School in 2005. She is the author of *The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart* (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), which received the Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies; *Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History* (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and *Acute Melancholia and Other Essays* (Columbia University Press, 2016).

 She is also the co-editor, with Patricia Beckman, of *The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism* (2012) and, with Eleanor Craig, Niklaus Largier, and Kris Trujillo, of a special issue of *Representations*, "The Poetics of Prayer and Devotion to Literature" (2021). *Devotion: Three Inquires on Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination*, co-authored with Constance Furey and Sarah Hammerschlag, appeared in December 2021. She has a number of other projects in the overlapping fields of philosophy of religion, religion and literature, and feminist and gender studies in progress.

###  How To Join

 Please add your name and email address to [this registration page](/%20https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vfu6prjIvHtdGU5FU5QhUpBbSXk4lQ0Vb%20). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and passcode to the event.

 If you have any questions, please contact Deidre Lynch at <deidrelynch@fas.harvard.edu> or Yoon Sun Lee at <ylee@wellesley.edu>.



 

 



 

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- [ Novel Theory ](/seminars/novel-theory)
 
 

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