Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)

by BRONTE,CHARLOTTE

• ISBN13: 9780393975420
• ISBN10: 0393975428
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Textbook Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author. "Contexts" includes eighteen new selections and two new subsections: "Charlotte and Jane's Illustrated Book" which includes a letter from Bronte to her publisher W. S. Williams; "Vignettes from Bewick"; and "Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's "British Birds'" and "Charlotte Bronte as Governess," which includes letters to Emily Bronte, Ellen Nussey, W. S. Williams, and "The Governess-Grinders." "Criticism" collects six major essays on Jane Eyre, four of them new to the Third Edition. Contributors include Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert, Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd. A new Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Norton Critical Edition	vii
The Text of Jane Eyre
Author's Preface	1	(2)
Note to the Third Edition	3	(2)
Jane Eyre	5	(526)
Contexts
Charlotte Bronte as Student, Governess, and Teacher	389	(36)
School Register: Clergy Daughters' School	389	(1)
Report of the Cowan Bridge School for Clergymen's Daughters	390	(2)
From The Children's Friend	392	(2)
Charlotte Bronte at Roe Head	394	(1)
Introduction to Bronte's Juvenilia	394	(5)
Christine Alexander
``Well, here I am at Roe Head''	399	(2)
``Now as I have a little bit of time''	401	(2)
``All this day I have been in a dream''	403	(4)
``I'm just going to write because I cannot help it''	407	(2)
``My compliments to the weather''	409	(7)
``About a week since I got a letter from Branwell''	416	(1)
Retrospection	417	(6)
From ``Henry Hastings''	423	(1)
Farewell to Angria	424	(1)
Charlotte's and Jane's Illustrated Book	425	(7)
To W. S. Williams, March 11, 1848	426	(1)
Vignettes from Bewick	427	(1)
Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's ``British Birds''	428	(4)
Jane W. Stedman
Charlotte Bronte as Governess	432	(99)
To Emily J. Bronte, June 8, 1839	432	(1)
To Ellen Nussey, June 30, 1839	433	(1)
To W. S. Williams, May 12, 1848	434	(3)
``The Governess-Grinders''	437	(2)
Charlotte Bronte and Her Publishers, Reviewers, and First Biographer	439	(10)
To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 7, 1847	440	(1)
To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 24, 1847	440	(1)
To Smith, Elder, & Co., September 12, 1847	441	(1)
To W. S. Williams, October 28, 1847	442	(1)
To W. S. Williams, January 28, 1848	443	(1)
To G. H. Lewes, November 6, 1847	444	(1)
Fraser's Magazine, December 1847	445	(2)
G. H. Lewes
To W. S. Williams, December 11, 1847	447	(1)
To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848	448	(1)
To W. S. Williams, Early September 1848	448	(1)
The Christian Remembrancer and The Quarterly	449	(8)
From The Christian Remembrancer, January 1848	449	(2)
The Quarterly Review, December 1848	451	(3)
Elizabeth Rigby
To W. S. Williams, January 2, 1849	454	(1)
To W. S. Williams, February 10[?], 1849	454	(1)
To W. S. Williams, August 16, 1849	455	(1)
From ``A Word to The Quarterly''	456	(1)
Elizabeth Gaskell	457	(12)
Charlotte Bronte and the Critics	457	(2)
Charlotte Bronte: Author and Woman	459	(1)
First Impressions of Charlotte Bronte	460	(1)
Charlotte Bronte at Home	460	(3)
Charlotte Bronte's Working Habits	463	(6)
Criticism
Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman	469	(14)
Adrienne Rich
A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress	483	(8)
Sandra M. Gilbert
St. John's Way and the Wayward Reader	491	(12)
Jerome Beaty
Jane Eyre: ``Hazarding Confidences''	503	(12)
Lisa Sternlieb
[The Cinematic Reconstitution of Jane Eyre]	515	(7)
Jeffrey Sconce
The Pleasure of Intertextuality: Reading Jane Eyre Television and Film Adaptations	522	(9)
Donna Marie Nudd
Charlotte Bronte: A Chronology	531	(2)
Selected Bibliography	533