Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte: (Updated Edition).

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Harold Bloom
Infobase Publishing, 2006 - Criticism - 235 pages
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
Fairies and Feminism
175
The Wild English Girl
191
Chronology
217
Contributors
219
Bibliography
221
Acknowledgments
225
Index
227
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