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dc.contributor.authorBronte, Charlotte
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T23:25:23Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T23:25:23Z
dc.date.issued1848
dc.identifier.citationLondon: Planet PDF, 1848en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/461
dc.description.abstractJane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1848 by Planet PDF. 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 title 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 — Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë 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.en_US
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dc.publisherPlanet PDFen_US
dc.subjectGovernesses Fictionen_US
dc.subjectFathers and daughtersen_US
dc.subjectMentally ill womenen_US
dc.subjectCharity-schoolsen_US
dc.subjectCountry homesen_US
dc.titleJane Eyreen_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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