532 pages

English language

Published 2003 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-243720-9
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4 stars (3 reviews)

The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?

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Will she marry him?

4 stars

Aged 12 or so, I read this book - along with another bunch of gothic novels and mickey mouse comics - and all that stuck with me was the memory of a needlessly tormented, addicting-to-read romance. Nearly 20 years later, the romance is there, it is needlessly tormented, and addicting too. Victorian morality is tiresome to read about - I cannot imagine to live by. Of course, it is also racist, colonialist, ableistic, and classist in ways that are (even) more extreme than our own. The obsession with marriage makes one want to escape into a hippie commune asap.

And yet, there is something so ineffably modern about Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester. Jane is independent, strong-minded and sarcastic. I am tempted to believe that even her religious talk is more of a language to express human feelings, thoughts and impulses that it is piousness. And Edward is such an …

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Siempre me han atraído esos libros que, considerándose "clásicos" de la literatura, rompen con el canon masculino que lleva siglos imponiéndose. 'Jane Eyre' es uno de ellos, pero me parece importante advertir sobre una obviedad: fue escrito hace 200 años. Es decir, sería un error acercarnos a esta novela con la expectativa de leer algo parecido a un tratado fundacional sobre feminismo, tal y como lo entendemos ahora. No lo es. Quizá no está ni cerca de serlo. Pero es que tampoco es su función.
'Jane Eyre' me ha parecido un retrato interesantísimo de la sociedad inglesa de la primera mitad del siglo XIX, en el que, además, Charlotte Brontë se atreve a reflexionar -y esto sí considero que implica una subversión importante del mencionado canon literario hipermasculinizado- sobre la libertad y la agencia de las mujeres como entidades completas en sí mismas, y no como complemento necesariamente subyugado al …

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Subjects

  • Governesses -- Fiction
  • Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
  • Mentally ill women -- Fiction
  • Charity-schools -- Fiction
  • Married people -- Fiction
  • Country homes -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Orphans -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction