Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre : a casebook / edited by Elsie B. Michie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michie, Elsie B. (Elsie Browning), 1948-

Series:

Casebooks in criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Governesses in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Jane Eyre is one of the most well-loved and widely read works in the canon, popular at both the high school and university levels. The casebook provides a series of essays that are lucidly and passionately written, and carefully researched and argued while still being accessible to the general reading public. The anthology is structured in three sections. The first provides three overall interpretations of the novel that are excellent examples of the most common approach to Jane Eyre a reading that explores the psychological development of the novel's eponymous heroine. The second section will introduce more novel approaches: a feminist reading of the novel, a depiction of the psyche in Jane Eyre, a depiction of Jane in light of mid-Victorian discussions of Evangelicism, an analysis of Jane in relation to contemporary debates about the governess, and an examination of the novel in relation to colonialist discourse. The last section of the anthology includes essays that provide accounts of the familial context out of which Jane Eyre arose, its critical reception, and its literary afterlife.

Contents:

Reading Brontë's novels : the confessional tradition / Carol Bock

Pandora's box : subjectivity, class, and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism / Cora Kaplan

The advertisement of Jane Eyre / Ronald Thomas

Excerpts from Allegories of empire / Jenny Sharpe

Jane Eyre : "lurid hieroglyphics" / Sally Shuttleworth

"Dreadful to me" : Jane Eyre and history / Heather Glenn

Excerpts from Subjects on display / Beth Newman

"That stormy sisterhood" : portrait of the Brontës / Helena Michie

Jane Eyre in later lives : intertextual strategies in women's self-definition / Patsy Stonemen

Romance and anti-romance : from Brontë's Jane Eyre to Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Joyce Carol Oates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212).

ISBN:

0195177789

0195177797

OCLC:

60419451

Publisher Number:

9780195177787

9780195177794