Jane Eyre

Description:

Written in the mid-1800s, Jane Eyre maintains its universal appeal through the strength of its heroine—the poor, abused, plain orphan with a commanding and spirited personality. Jane's determination and wit win her the husband she so intensely love, but the novel proves to be more than a rags-to-riches love story. Jane Eyre comments on the morality and prejudices of the times, and ultimately tells the tale of Jane's search for self. In many ways Jane Eyre can be read as a quintessential expression of Victorian individualism. Whilst George Eliot's heroines ask where social duty can lie, Charlotte Bront's ask only how individual desires and ambitions can be achieved. In the mouth of an industrialist, such sentiments would express the spirit of the age. Coming from a socially-marginal female their import is radical, if not revolutionary. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo's White Noise.

Target Audience:

Students of Literature, English Department & Libraries