This article is about the novel. For
other uses, see Jane
Eyre (disambiguation).
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Jane
Eyre...................
" The first American edition
was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York."
Primarily of the bildungsroman
genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr.
Rochester, the
master of fictitious Thornfield Hall.
In its internalisation of the action — the focus is on the gradual unfolding of
Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a
heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry — Jane Eyre
revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first
historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers
like Joyce and Proust
The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is
nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic
character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality,
religion, and proto-feminism.
Introduction
The novel Jane Eyre is a
first-person narrative of the title character. The novel is set somewhere in
the north of England, during the reign of George III (1760–1820), and goes
through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is
emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at
Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers
privations and oppression; her time as the governess
of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic
employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her
earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her; and the
finale with her reunion with, and marriage to, her beloved Rochester. During
these sections the novel provides perspectives on a number of important social
issues and ideas, many of which are critical of the status quo (see the Themes section
below). Literary critic Jerome Beaty notes that the close first person
perspective leaves the reader "too uncritically accepting of her
worldview" and often leads reading and conversation about the novel
towards supporting Jane, regardless of how irregular her ideas or perspectives.
Jane Eyre is divided into 38 chapters and most editions are at least
400 pages long. The original publication was in three volumes, comprising
chapters 1; this was a common publishing format
during the 19th century.....
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