
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte(Author)
Margaret Smith(Editor)
Oxford University Press
3rd Edition
Published on 12. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
576 pages
978-0-19-880497-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!"
Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity.
A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms.
In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.
Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's happiness and integrity.
A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own terms.
In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel, which is both shocking and romantic.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-880497-0 (9780198804970)
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Charlotte Brontë | Margaret Smith
Jane Eyre
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3rd Edition
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Jane Eyre
E-Book
09/2019
3rd Edition
OUP eBook
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Jane Eyre
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Persons
Juliette Atkinson is Associate Professor in English at University College, London. She is the author of Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century 'Hidden' Lives (OUP, 2010) and French Novels and the Victorians (OUP, 2017). She has edited for Oxford World's Classics new editions of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (2015) and Silas Marner.
Author
Editor
Introduction
Associate Professor in English Literature, University College London
Content
Introduction Note on the text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Appendix A: Opinions of the Press (as printed at the end of the third edition) Appendix B: Charlotte Brontes Punctuation Explanatory Notes and Selected Variants