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Page 189
... 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 ...
Page 191
... Charlotte Brontë held in especial contempt , are a bore and show how small a sense of the comic she possessed . The omniscient narrator is also a bore ; we are nagged , bullied , lectured endlessly . What remains - and it is con ...
... Charlotte Brontë held in especial contempt , are a bore and show how small a sense of the comic she possessed . The omniscient narrator is also a bore ; we are nagged , bullied , lectured endlessly . What remains - and it is con ...
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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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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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