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"...helps to make Jane Eyre timely
and significant to contemporary students. This book should be especially
popular among students interested in women's issues."
School Library Journal (print)
"Understanding Jane Eyre requires
understanding a woman striving to profession, where husbands controlled
their wives money and communication. This volume not only analyzes
the writing of Charlotte Bronte, but discusses life in Victorian England--the
education of girls, the role of the governess, the treatment of women
diagnosed as insane, inheritance of marriage laws--and compares
it with the 21st century. This book will be useful to social
studies, English and women's studies classes."
Gale
Reference for Students (print)
Immediately popular when published over a century and a
half ago, Jane Eyre has continued to find appreciative audiences. This student sourcebook offers a unique
interdisciplinary approach to the study of Charlotte Bronte’s landmark
novel. While it gives insightful literary analysis, it also contextualizes the novel in terms of the historical social issues it
confronts. Expert commentary is
supported with primary documents from
legal and medical treatises, magazine articles, letters, essays, and firsthand
accounts. A personal biography written by
Elizabeth Gaskell, an acquaintance of Bronte, offers a detailed accounts of the Cowan Bridge School, which Bronte
attended and fictionalized in Jane Eyre.
In addition, the online sourcebook provides the user access to:
- Contemporary Reviews
of Jane Eyre
- Victorian Web: Literature, History, Culture, Gender Issues,
Theatre and Popular Entertainment in the age of Victoria
- Romantic Period
Overview
- Photo History of
Bronte Parsonage
- Bronte Portraiture
Family Tree
- Photos of Roe Head
School
- Victorian Women in
the Work Force
- Victorian Women: Social and Economic Status
- Women’s History and Madness
- History of Phrenology on the Web
- E Texts of Jane
Eyre, Mary Wollstonecraft’s
Vindication of the Rights of Women, Blackstone’s 1765 Commentaries on the
Laws of England, Anne Bronte’s Agnes Grey
and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Biographical profiles of Charlotte Bronte, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Sarah Trimmer, Dr. Andrew Bell, Frances Power Cobbe, Thomas
Gisborne, Hannah More, William Duff, Sir William Blackstone and others
- Representations of Women in Romantic Poetry including
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats
- Popular media and Jane Eyre: Participants involved in
movie and theatrical productions including John Houseman, Mabel Ballin, Orson
Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Agnes Moorhead, George C. Scott,
Susannah York, Timothy Dalton, Franco Zeffirelli, William Hurt, Charlotte
Gainsbourg, Anna Paquin, Samantha Morton, Ciara Hinds and others
- Glossary of cultural
references and historical idioms from Jane
Eyre
- Web-based study questions
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