Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England.

1997 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 457
Author(s):  
Allen Horstman ◽  
Ginger S. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Victorian England ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Using Language to Rage against Victorian Hierarchy: Self-constructed Feminist Identity in Jane Eyre

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yao Chiachen ◽  
Ya-huei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Sense Of Competence ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
True Love ◽  
And Gender

<p class="AbstractText">All human beings seek certain identities in order to understand their existence and position in society, the groups to which they belong, and the unique characteristics they have. This paper examines how, in <em>Jane Eyre</em>, Charlotte Bronte examines socially constructed institutionalism in Victorian England. This paper also explores how the protagonist, Jane Eyre, oppressed due to her social class and gender, struggles to live with equality, dignity, and freedom, and finally reaches independence and self-fulfillment. Jane successfully completes the stages of identity development, and, after acquiring a sense of competence, achieves happiness and intimacy in an equal partnership with her true love, Mr. Rochester.</p>

Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
Ann R. Higginbotham ◽  
Ginger S. Frost
Keyword(s):  
Victorian England ◽  
And Gender

Victorian Subjects - Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain, 1832–1920. By Regina Gagnier. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. $35.00. - The Rise of Popular Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy. By David F. Mitch. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 340. $34.95. - “Shattered Nerves”: Doctors, Patients, and Depression in Victorian England. By Janet Oppenheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 388. $27.95. - Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality, Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century London. By Francoise Barret-Ducrocq. Translated by John Howe. New York: Verso, 1991. Pp. 225. $29.95. - Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England. By Sonya O. Rose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. Pp. 303. $39.95. - Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture. By Tracy Davis. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. Pp. vxi + 200. $49.95. - The Making of Victorian Drama. By Anthony Jenkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 301. $49.50.

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 412-422
Author(s):  
Dina M. Copelman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
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