This database contains biographies and essays from Contemporary Authors, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and full-text articles from more than 250 literary journals.
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This volume presents a variety of new essays on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Many agree that Bronte was ahead of her time as she explored the individualistic character of Jane, and topics such as classism, sexuality, religion and issues of gender. Edited by Katie R. Peel, professors of Victorian literature and women's studies at University of North Carolina.
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This concise but comprehensive guide to Jane Eyre introduces its contexts, language, reception and adaptation from its first publication to the present. This introduction to the text is the ideal companion to study, offering guidance on: literary and historical context, language, style and form, reading the text, critical reception and publication.
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Using psychoanalysis as the primary model of textual analysis, Bluebeard Gothic focuses on the conjunction of religion, sacrifice, and scapegoating to provide an original interpretation of a canonical and frequently-studied text, Jane Eyre.
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In this volume, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care. Through the lens of care, Schaffer discovers a vital form of communal relationship in the Victorian novel.