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Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre

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  • © 2008

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  1. Sue Thomas
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 1-7

  3. Christianity and the State of Slavery

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 8-30

  4. The Tropical Extravagance of Bertha Mason

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 31-53

  5. Monstrous Martyrdom and the ‘Overshadowing Tree’ of Philanthropy

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 54-70

  6. The Ferment of Restlessness

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 71-91

  7. Playing Jane Eyre at the Victoria Theatre in 1848

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 92-103

  8. An 1859 Caribbean Perspective on Jane Eyre

    • Sue Thomas
    Pages 104-126

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 127-170
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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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'In this groundbreaking study, Sue Thomas convincingly dates the action and setting of the novel...an important addition to the critical approaches to Jane Eyre ...' - BrontëBlog

About the author

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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