IMPERIALISM, REFORM AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISHNESS IN JANE EYRE by Sue Thomas ( 9780230583757 )

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IMPERIALISM, REFORM AND THE MAKING OF ENGLISHNESS IN JANE EYRE

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ISBN 10:

023058375X

ISBN 13:

9780230583757

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

30 April, 2008

Description:

This new study demonstrates the precision of Bronte's historical setting of Jane Eyre. Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Bronte and her characters, mapping relations of genre and gender across the novel's articulation of questions of imperial history and relations, reform, racialization and the making of Englishness.

Synopsis:

In a famous passage from Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre identifies herself with 'millions' in 'ferment', 'in silent revolt against their lot'. Elsewhere, she compares herself to a missionary preaching liberty to the enslaved, helping them secure their freedom. Her imagination is shaped by historical events, and yet Bronte is usually thought to be careless about dates and historical markers in Jane Eyre. In this groundbreaking study, Sue Thomas convincingly dates the action and setting of the novel, and analyses the worldly consciousness of Bronte's characters and of Bronte herself. She addresses the articulation of questions of imperial history and relations, reform, racialization and the making of Englishness in the novel. Her examination of an 1848 stage adaptation of Jane Eyre for a predominantly working-class audience and of an 1859 Caribbean reworking of the novel illuminate the limits of Bronte's social imaginary.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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