Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte: (Updated Edition).Harold Bloom Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre', published in October 1847, was an immediate success, going into second and third printings by spring of 1848. Even Queen Victoria, according to her diary, read the story to Prince Albert until midnight. The tale of the 'poor, obscure, plain, and little' governess, her brooding employer, Edward Rochester, and the madwoman secreted in the attic, 'Jane Eyre' is considered a staple of Gothic and Victorian literature. Combining important critical essays from the previous edition with an abundance of new material. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Lurid Hieroglyphics | 7 |
Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre | 43 |
Jane Eyre | 75 |
Jane Eyre and the Secrets of Furious Lovemaking | 97 |
The Enigma of St John Rivers | 123 |
St Johns Way and the Wayward Reader | 143 |
The Shape of Jane Eyre | 157 |
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