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... Charlotte Brontë's resemblance to Byron is quite striking ; one might say that she is the female answer to Byron ; and it is in this sense that Jane Eyre is the first romantic novel in English . Everything in the novel is staked upon ...
... Charlotte Brontë's resemblance to Byron is quite striking ; one might say that she is the female answer to Byron ; and it is in this sense that Jane Eyre is the first romantic novel in English . Everything in the novel is staked upon ...
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... Charlotte Brontë's shaping dream ; they represent , indeed , the triumph of the dream over reality . And the unity of tone is established on the first page of the novel , when we meet Jane Eyre as a small girl at the Reeds , the ...
... Charlotte Brontë's shaping dream ; they represent , indeed , the triumph of the dream over reality . And the unity of tone is established on the first page of the novel , when we meet Jane Eyre as a small girl at the Reeds , the ...
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... Charlotte Brontë and the women novelists who preceded her ; the latter , Jane Austen as much as any , had accepted without question their place as women in a man - made world ; they had fitted in . Charlotte Brontë's characters do not ...
... Charlotte Brontë and the women novelists who preceded her ; the latter , Jane Austen as much as any , had accepted without question their place as women in a man - made world ; they had fitted in . Charlotte Brontë's characters do not ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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