The Woman Question in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: the interaction of Romanticism and mid-nineteenth-century Victorian England

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1992
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Chang, Hsiu-sui
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Kathleen K. Hickok
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Near the end of the twentieth century, various and even contradictory literary criticisms are available. Which one is best for interpretation? Specifically, which one is best for interpreting Jane Eyre? The answers vary. Terry Eagleton, for example, declares that "there are indeed Marxist and feminist theories of literature which ... are more valuable" since his hypothesis ts that "literature . . . is vitally engaged with the living situations of men and women: it is concrete rather than abstract". What he means is that literature occurs in a social context.

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