Gender Matters in Brontë's Works — Themes and Contexts

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Shirley

• Shirley the Condition of England and the Woman Question

Jane Eyre

• Jane's refusal of sutee and Victorian understanding of wife sacrifice
• Age Difference in Marriage: The Context for Jane Eyre
• Angel and Demon: Female Selfhood and the Male Gaze in Byatt and Brontë
• Jane Eyre, Proto-Feminist vs. "The Third Person Man"
• Gender and Hunger in Jane Eyre
• Angry Angels: Repression, Containment, and Deviance, in Jane Eyre
• Feminine Conduct and Responsibility in Gaskell and Brontë
• The Fated Modernist Heroine: Female Protagonists in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
• The Governess and Class Prejudice
• Masculinity in Brontë, Browning, Byatt, and Carlyle
• The Victorian Governess: A Bibliography
• The Position of Middle-class Women
• Punch and Brontë on Training the Ideal Governess
• In What Sense is Jane Eyre a Feminist Novel?
• The Victorian Governess: A Bibliography
• Angels, Vampires and Women's Emancipation
• Avoiding Dangerous Sexuality in Jane Eyre
• Charlotte Brontë: A Modern Woman
• How Victorian Women Suffer More Like Christ than do Men
• The Experience of Womanhood in Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

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