This new study demonstrates the precision of Brontë’s historical setting of Jane Eyre . Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Brontë and her characters, mapping relations of genre and gender across the novel’s articulation of questions of imperial history and relations, reform, racialization and the making of Englishness.
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Christianity and the State of Slavery The Tropical Extravagance of Bertha Mason Monstrous Martyrdom and the ‘Overshadowing Tree’ of Philanthropy The Ferment of Restlessness Playing Jane Eyre at the Victoria Theatre in 1848 An 1859 Caribbean Reworking of Jane Eyre Appendix 1: Timeline Notes Works Cited Works Consulted Index
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SUE THOMAS is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of
The Worlding of Jean Rhys, co-author with Ann Blake and Leela Gandhi of
England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction, and compiler of
Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952): A Bibliography, and has published extensively on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century women writers, and decolonising literatures.
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