Misreading Jane Eyre
Subtitle: a postformalist paradigm
By: Jerome Beaty.
Series: The theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.; Governesses in literature.
Description: This revisionary look at Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre offers a rigorous new reading and an interrogation of the reading process. Examining both literary historical contexts and contexts produced within the structure of the narrative itself (and incorporating a number of literary critical strands, including historical scholarship, reception aesthetics, Iserian phenomenology, Bakhtinian dialogism, and traditional formalism), Beaty resituates the common feminist reading of Jane Eyre.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.