【内容简介】

Immediately popular when published over a century and a half ago, Jane Eyre has contnnuea to find appreciative audiences. This student casebook offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of Charlotte Bronte's landmark novel. While it gives insightful literary analysis, it also contextualizes the novel in terms of the historical social issues it confronts. Expert commentary is supported with primary documents from legal and medical treatises, magazine articles, letters, essays and firsthand accounts. A personal biography written by Elizabeth Gaskell, an acquaintance of Bronte, offers a detailed account of the Cowan Bridge School. which Charlotte attended and fictionalized in Jane Eyre.

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Introduction
1. Literary Analysis: Jane Eyre
2. Education for Victorian Girls
　FROM:
　Mrs. Sarah Trimmer, The Economy of Charity; or,
　an Address to Ladies; Adapted to the Present State
　of Charitable Institutions in England (1801)
　Frances Power Cobbe, Life of Frances Power Cobbe,
　as Told by Herself (1904)
　Hannah Lynch, Autobiography of a Child (1899)
　Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
　"An Enquiry into the State of Girls’ Fashionable
　Schools" (Fraser’s Magazine, 1845)
　Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of
　Female Education (1799)
　Thomas Gisborne, An Enquiry into the Duties of the
　Female Sex (1797)
　William Duff, Letters on the Intellectual and Moral
　Character of Women (1807)
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