How Has Facebook Revitalized Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte?

All the buzz in the blogosphere surrounding the upcoming Jane Eyre movie has literary scholars wondering what role social media plays in exposing a new generation of readers to classical literature.

More than 150 years after her death, author Charlotte Bronte and her lovable character Jane Eyre are more popular than ever, and experts attribute their newfound notoriety to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

On Twitter, hundreds of users tweet under Jane Eyre-referencing names, like “plainjane,” “misseyre,” “justagoverness”and “iamjaneeyre.”