Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

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Introductory Materials

  • Complete text of the novel in the Victorian Web
  • Biographical materials (sitemap)
  • A Brief Biography
  • An Appreciation
  • Autobiographic Elements in Jane Eyre
  • Charlotte Brontë: A Modern Woman
  • The Brontë Pseudonyms
  • Charlotte Brontë Chronology

Literature

Best of the Web

Named Best of the Web for Jane Eyre by Shmoop

  • Works
  • Theme and Subject
  • Plot and narrative structure
  • Genre, mode, and style
  • Characterization
  • Imagery, symbol, and motif
  • Setting and description
  • Charlotte Brontë's literary relations: sources, influences, confluences
  • (general) Plot and narrative structure in fiction
  • Victorian authors

Cultural Contexts (sitemaps for sections outside individual authors = ***)

  • Brontë and Victorian art — illustrations and portraits
  • Political history — themes and contexts
  • Social history — political themes and contexts
  • Religion — themes and contexts
  • Gender Matters
  • Science
  • Economic themes and contexts***
  • Victorian political history***
  • Victorian social history***

Other Resources

  • Prismatic Jane Eyre: An Experiment in the Study of Translations
  • Leading questions
  • Victorian Web homepage


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Last modified 14 November 2019