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Jane Eyre : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism

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  • Author: Brontë, Charlotte
    Contributor: Dunn, Richard J.; Mead, Catherine
    Edition: 3rd Norton Critical ed
    Date:
    Issued
    2008
    Summary:

    The notes to the text pay particular attention to literary and Biblical allusions and to words and phrases not readily available in desk dictionaries. They also include translation of French passages. The backgrounds section of this Norton Critical Edition offers generous samplings of Charlotte Bronte's early writings, letters, and poems.

    Contents:
    • The temptations of a motherless woman / Adrienne Rich
    • A dialogue of self and soul : plain Jane's progress / Sandra M. Gilbert
    • St. John's way and the wayward reader / Jerome Beaty
    • Jane Eyre : "hazarding confidences" / Lisa Sternlieb
    • The cinematic reconstitution of Jane Eyre / Jeffrey Sconce
    • The pleasure of intertextuality : reading Jane Eyre television and film adaptations / Donna Marie Nudd.
    Genre:
    Romance fiction
    Sujets: Governesses | Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 | Mentally ill women | England
    Original Publisher: New York, Norton
    Language(s): English