Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: A Casebook.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: December 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: A Casebook. Elsie B. Michie, editor. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00. viii + 212 pages. ISBN 0-19-517778-9. This new volume in O.U.P.'s Casebooks in Criticism originated with O.U.P. New York. It includes an introduction by the editor and nine essays examining the novel and its author from a variety of perspectives: 'Reading Bronte's Novels: The Confessional Tradition' by Carol Bock; 'Pandora's Box: Subjectivity, Class, and Sexuality in Socialist Feminist Criticism' by Cora Kaplan; 'The Advertisement of Jane Eyre' by Ronald Thomas; ...

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