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Jane Eyre - (Starbooks Classics Editions) (Paperback)
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Jane Eyre - (Starbooks Classics Editions) (Paperback)
Series: Collection of Bronte Sisters, 1
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Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is
a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published on 16
October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England, under
the pen name "Currer Bell." 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 eponymous character, including her
growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic
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 - the
novel revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Bronte 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.
Reception]
According to a review of Jane Eyre in The Quarterly Review, it was
found to be "pre-eminently an anti-Christian composition." Although
Bronte clearly intended for the book to be a protest against
Victorian lifestyle, which caused a great unrest with the Quarterly
Review, they found Jane Eyre to be more radical than its original
intent: "We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and
thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code
human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at
home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre." Although Jane
Eyre is now commonly accepted into the canon of high-school English
literature, its immediate reception was in stark contrast to its
modern-day reception.
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