Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre
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Taught more frequently than any of Charlotte Brontë's other novels, Jane Eyre presents distinct problems for the contemporary undergraduate instructor, one being the work's sheer length. Almost all the instructors who responded to a survey conducted for this volume spent two to three weeks teaching the novel in their courses and seminars; their students discovered, in the words of the volume coeditor Diane Long Hoeveler, "as much about themselves, their own memories of childhood, their own struggles for autonomy, as they [did] about the cultural, social, economic, religious, and literary backgrounds that constitute the milieu of the novel."
ISBN
9780873527064
Publication Date
1993
Publisher
Modern Language Association
City
New York
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
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Table of Contents
Part One: Materials / Beth Lau
Introduction
Editions
Biography
Background studies
Critical studies
Aids to teaching
Bibliographies
Part Two: Approaches. Introduction / Diane Long Hoeveler
Teaching the Times and the Life. Jane Eyre and A vindication of the rights of woman / James Diedrick
The place of Jane Eyre in the Brontë family canon / Janet H. Freeman
Jane Eyre and biography / Thomas L. Jeffers
Jane Eyre and the governess in nineteenth-century Britain / Mary Poovey
Teaching the Literary and Philosophical Traditions. Jane Eyre, Bertha, and the female gothic / Tamar Heller
"Beauty and the beast": growing up with Jane Eyre / Phyllis C. Ralph
Jane Eyre and Christianity / Susan VanZanten Gallagher
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë's new Bible / Keith A. Jenkins
Teaching Specific Contexts. Jane Eyre and narrative voice / John O. Jordan
Fire and light in Jane Eyre / Mary Burgan
Contrast and liminality: structure and antistructure in Jane Eyre / Mark M. Hennelly, Jr
Jane Eyre and pictorial representation / Margaret Goscilo
Jane Eyre and imperialism / John Kucich
Jane Eyre and the politics of style / Dennis W. Allen
Jane Eyre through the body: food, sex, discipline / Diane Long Hoeveler
Jane Eyre as a novel of vindication / Bernard J. Paris
Jane Eyre and family systems therapy / Jerome Bump
Rediscovering Jane Eyre through its adaptations / Donna Marie Nudd
Taking a walk: or, setting forth from Gateshead / Robert L. Patten
A Kristevan reading of the marriage plot in Jane Eyre / David Rosenwasser