Understanding Jane Eyre A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Subjects:

• Literature » English Literature
• Women's Studies » Women in Literature & the Arts

Reviews:

• Understanding Jane Eyre requires understanding a woman striving to write in a world where women were not allowed to enter the medical profession, where husbands controlled their wives money and communication. This volume not only analyzes the writing of Charlotte Bronte, but discusses life in Victorian England--the education of girls, the role of the governess, the treatment of women diagnosed as insane, inheritance of marriage laws--and compares it with the 21st century. This book will be useful to social studies, English and women's studies classes.
  —Gale reference for Students August 2002
• ...helps to make Jane Eyre timely and significant to contemporary students. This book should be especially popular among students interested in women's issues.
  —School Library Journal September 2002

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Literary Analysis: Jane Eyre
• Education for Victorian Girls
• The Governess in Nineteenth-Century England
• Madness and Victorian Women: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Inheritance and Marriage Law and Custom
• Jane Eyre: Issues in the Twenty-first Century