{"id":3636,"date":"2018-10-18T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2018-10-18T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:52:39","slug":"first-appearances-jane-eyre-moby-dick-and-winnie-the-pooh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2018\/10\/18\/first-appearances-jane-eyre-moby-dick-and-winnie-the-pooh\/","title":{"rendered":"First Appearances: Jane Eyre, Moby-Dick, and Winnie-the-Pooh"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Katie Funderberg, Xena Becker, and Kellie Clinton<\/p>\n

Jane Eyre<\/h2>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Significantly impacting the genre of prose fiction, Jane Eyre<\/em>, originally subtitled An Autobiography<\/em>, was first appeared on October 16th<\/sup>, 1847 under the pen name Currer Bell. Speculation over the author\u2019s identity and the novelty of a book commenting on issues such as religion, class, and sexuality from a woman\u2019s point of view and written in an intimate first-person narrative made Jane Eyre<\/em> an immediate commercial success. Despite the popularity of the book, several contemporary critics were concerned about the social commentary of Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s work, with The Quarter Literary Review<\/em> describing Jane Eyre<\/em> as \u201cpre-eminently an anti-Christian composition\u201d in 1848.[1]<\/a> Although she wrote two other novels, Shirley<\/em> (1849) and Villette<\/em> (1853), Charlotte Bront\u00eb literary career was cut short by her early death at age 38 due to tuberculosis in 1855, leaving Jane Eyre <\/em>as the primary evidence of her lasting influence on the formation of the modern novel. [Shelfmark:\u00a0 823 B78j1847]<\/a><\/p>\n

Moby-Dick<\/h2>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale<\/em>, was first published on October 18th<\/sup>, 1851. Although it was not well-received at the time of publication, it entered the American literary canon in the early 1900s and continues to influence American literature and art. Almost as well-known as the opening line of the book are the illustrations of the 1931 Lakeside Press edition by Rockwell Kent. R. R. Donnelley and Sons, the parent company of The Lakeside Press, were primarily known for producing department store catalogues, but in an effort to expand their image, they commissioned a series of heavily illustrated American classics. Kent insisted upon illustrating Moby Dick and spent the next five years studying Melville\u2019s influences to create 270 stylized pen and ink drawings.[2]<\/a> [Shelfmark: IUQ00187]<\/a><\/p>\n

Winnie-the-Pooh<\/h2>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

Winnie-the-Pooh,<\/em> written by A.A. Milne and illustrated by E.H. Shepard, celebrated its 92nd<\/sup> birthday on October 14th<\/sup>.\u00a0 However, the Winnie the Pooh introduced to the world in 1926 may look a little different from the Winnie the Pooh that we all know and love today! Pooh\u2019s famous red shirt was not addeduntil the 1930s, when Stephen Slesinger, an American creator of comic-strip characters, acquired various rights to Winnie-the-Pooh<\/em> from A.A. Milne. It was Slesinger who then commercialized Pooh and gave him his red shirt. [Shelfmark:\u00a0 S. M635w<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Arnold Shapiro, \u201cIn Defense of Jane Eyre.\u201d Studies in English Literature, 1500\u20131900<\/em> 8, no. 4 (1968), 683, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/449473.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Matthew Jeffrey Abrams, \u201cIlluminated critique: the Kent Moby-Dick,\u201d A Journal of Verbal\/Visual Enquiry<\/em> 33, no. 4 (2017), 378, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02666286.2017.1341804.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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