Political Themes and Contexts in Brontë's Works

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Shirley

• Shirley the Condition of England and the Woman Question

Jane Eyre

• The Illustrated London News, Colonialism, and Jane Eyre
• Contextualizing Racialized Interpretations of Bertha Mason's Character
• '[S]he bit me . . . like a tigress': Charlotte Bronte's construction of the Other in Jane Eyre
• Class Attitudes in The Westminster Review and Jane Eyre
• Desire, Class Position, and Gender in Jane Eyre and Pickwick Papers
• The Governess and Class Prejudice
• The Victorian Governess: A Bibliography
• Jane Eyre and North on South on Social Class
• The Position of Middle-class Women
• Punch and Brontë on Training the Ideal Governess
• In What Sense is Jane Eyre a Feminist Novel?
• Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Readers Alone! Why a Governess's Narrative in Jane Eyre Shocked Certain Victorians
• The Victorian Governess: A Bibliography

Related Material

• Victorian Political History

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