Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
-The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Brontë, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes.
-"Contexts," highlighting Jane Eyre as a bildungsroman through diary entries and letters by the author about her experiences as a student, teacher, and governess as well as her feelings about friendship, love, and writing.
-Five major critical interpretations by Virginia Woolf, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Susan Meyer, Carla Kaplan, and Kelly A. Marsh.
-A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography
About the Author
Lutz, Deborah: - Deborah Lutz is the Kelly Chair in English and American Literature at Pennsylvania State University. A Guggenheim, Cullman, and NEH fellow, she is the author of The Brontë Cabinet and other works. She lives in Pennsylvania and New York City.