Connell Guide to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre - Billington Josie
Connell Guide to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre - Billington Josie Jane Eyre, published on 16th October 1847, was an instant popular success. It is easy to forget, now, how shocking it was to its…
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Connell Guide to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre - Billington Josie
Jane Eyre, published on 16th October 1847, was an instant popular success. It is easy to forget, now, how shocking it was to its mid-19th century readers. More than 150 years later, it still powerfully affects its readers with all the charge of a new-minted work.
As Josie Billington reminds us in this compelling guide, the most savage reviews denounced the "coarseness" of language, the "unfeminine" laxity of moral tone, and the "dereliction of decorum" which made its hero cruel, brutal, yet attractively interesting, while permitting its plain, poor, single heroine to live under same roof as the man she loved. Virtually every early reviewer felt obliged either to condemn or defend its impropriety. What caused most outrage, perhaps, was the demonstrable rebellious anger in the heroine's "unregenerate and undisciplined spirit," her being a passionate law unto herself.
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