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Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte


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Summary

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has gripped readers since its 1847 publication. Thousands of readers since then have been drawn by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion.

Jane Eyre Summary

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms. In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.

About Charlotte Bronte

Juliette Atkinson is Associate Professor in English at University College, London. She is the author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives (OUP, 2010) and French Novels and the Victorians (OUP, 2017). She has edited for Oxford World's Classics new editions of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (2015) and Silas Marner.

Table of Contents

Introduction Note on the text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Appendix A: Opinions of the Press (as printed at the end of the third edition) Appendix B: Charlotte Brontes Punctuation Explanatory Notes and Selected Variants

Additional information

GOR010591431
9780198804970
0198804970
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20190912
576
N/A
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