This perennially popular Norton Critical Edition again reprints, with expanded explanatory footnotes,the 1848 third edition text, the last corrected by Charlotte Bronte.
The newly expanded and reorganized "Contexts" section pro-vides an extensive sampling of materials concerning Bronte's experiences as a student, governess, and teacher, experiences that influenced her portrayal of Jane Eyre at Lowood school and as the governess of Thornfield Hall. New to the Third Edition are illustrations from and commentary upon Bronta's use of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds. Numerous letters doc-ument Jane Eyre's publication and reception history, including Bronte's retorts to negative reviews by Elizabeth Rigby and TheChristian Remembrancer. Expanded excerpts from Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte provide a fellow novelist's comments upon Bronte as a woman author and help to explain Bronte's reactions to her critics.
"Criticism" retains major feminist readings by Adrienne Rich and Sandra M. Gilbert and newly includes essays by Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.
作者简介:Richard J. Dunn is Professor of English at the University of Washington. His books include the Norton Critical Edition of Wuthering Heights, Approaches to Teaching Dickens's David Copperfield, David Copperfield: An Annotated Bibliography, The English Novel, Twentieth-Century Criticism, Defoe to Hardy, and Oliver Twist: Whole Heart and Soul.
【目录】
Preface to the Third Norton Critical Edition
The Text of Jane Eyre
Author's Preface
Note to the Third Edition
Jane Eyre
Contexts
CHARLOTTE BRONTE AS STUDENT, GOVERNESS,AND TEACI IER
School Register: Clergy Daughters' School
Report of the Cowan Bridge School for Clergymen's Daughters
From The Children's Friend
Charlotte Bronte at Roe Head
Christine Alexander Introduction to Bronte's Juvenilia
"Well, here I am at Roe Head"
"Now as I have a little bit of time"
"All this day I have been in a dream"
'Tin just going to write because I cannot help it"
"My compliments to the weather"
"About a week since I got a letter from Branwell"
Retrospection
From "Henry Hastings"
Farewell to Angria
Charlotte's and Jane's Illustrated Book
To W. S. Williams, March 11, 1848
Vignettes from Bewick
Jane W. Stedman Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's "British Birds"
Charlotte Bront as Governess
To Emily J. Bronte June 8, 1839
To Ellen Nussey, June 30, 1839
To W. S. Williams, May 12, 1848
"The Governess-Grinders"
CHARI,OTI'E BRONTE AND I tER PUBLISIIEP, S, REVIEWERS, AND FIRST BIOGRAPI 1ER
To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 7, 1847
To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 24, 1847
To Smith, Elder, & Co., September 12, 1847
To W. S. Williams, October 28, 1847
To W. S. Williams, January 28, 1848
To G. H. Lewes, November 6, 1847
G. H. Lewes, Fraser's Magazine, December 1847
To W. S. Williams, December 11, 1847
To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848
To W. S. Williams, Early September 1848
The Christian Remembrancer and The Quarterly
From The Christian Remembrancer, January 1848
Elizabeth Rigby, The Quarterly Review, December 1848
To W. S. Williams, January 2, 1849
To W. S. Williams, February 10[?], 1849
To W. S. Williams, August 16, 1849
From "A Word to The Quarterly"
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charlotte Bronte and the Critics
Charlotte Bronte: Author and Woman
First Impressions of Charlotte Bront~
Charlotte Bronte at Home
Charlotte Bronte's Working Habits
Criticism
Adrienne Rich Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman
Sandra M. Gilbert A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress
Jerome Beaty" St. John's Way and the Wayward Reader
Lisa Sternlieb Jane Eyre: "Hazarding Confidences"
Jeffrey Sconce" [The Cinematic Reconstitution of Jane Eyre]
Donna Marie Nudd The Pleasure of Intertextuality: Reading Jane Eyre Television and Film Adaptations
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