Jane Eyre &
Wide Sargasso Sea


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   Novels for Students (REF 808 NOV)
Each volume of Novels for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical background of works from various cultures and time periods. Each novel included in this new resource was specially chosen by an advisory panel of teachers and librarians.

Within the pages of Novels for Students, young researchers will discover everything they need to complete homework assignments and lead classroom discussions. Here's what they'll find at their fingertips:

Volume   4: Jane Eyre
Volume 19: Wide Sargasso Sea

 

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations -
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (823.87 CHA)
 Charlotte Brontė’s Jane Eyre, published in October 1847, was an immediate success, going into second and third printings by spring of 1848. Even Queen Victoria, according to her diary, read the story to Prince Albert until midnight. The tale of the “poor, obscure, plain, and little” governess, her brooding employer, Edward Rochester, and the madwoman secreted in the attic, Jane Eyre is considered a staple of Gothic and Victorian literature. Combining important critical essays from the previous edition with an abundance of new material, Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations deftly places Brontė's book in context and assesses its continuing popularity.

   

Understanding Jane Eyre (823 TEA)
 This student casebook offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of Charlotte Bronte's landmark novel. While it gives insightful literary analysis, it also contextualizes the novel in terms of the historical social issues it confronts. Expert commentary is supported with primary documents from legal and medical treatises, magazine articles, letters, essays and first hand accounts. A personal biography written by Elizabeth Gaskell, an acquaintance of Bronte, offers a detailed account of the Cowan Bridge School which Charlotte attended and fictionalized in Jane Eyre.

 

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  Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Student Resource Center - Gold
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Double (de)colonization and the Feminist Criticism of Wide Sargasso Sea: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_199904/ai_n8836640

The Empire Writes Back - Jane Eyre - Post Colonial Literature: http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/colonial3c.html

The Experience of Womanhood in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/caribbean/dominica/rhys/lewkowicz14.html

International Fiction Review - Flight Entrapment and Madness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/IFR/bin/get.cgi?directory=Vol.26/&filename=Sarvan.htm

Literary Encyclopedia - Wide Sargasso Sea: http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8787

World Literature in English, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/rhys.htm


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