My first literary crush, as a preadolescent, was on Edward Fairfax Rochester, the sarcastic, beetle-browed hero of Jane Eyre, who formed my early beau ideal of what a romantic partner would be. Decades later, rereading Charlotte Bronte’s novel, I was taken aback to rediscover the scene where Rochester dresses up as a palm-reading “old crone” in a bonnet and cape and creepily interrogates Jane on her love life. Strange dude!Romantic archetypes in literature, argues English professor Rachel Feder
In "The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love," Rachel Federal writes that Mr. Darcy, along with Chuck Bass in "Gossip Girl" and the Duke of Hastings in "Bridgerton," are jerks not dreamboats.
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