1st Edition
Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Jane Eyre's Transatlantic Echo
1 Faery and the Beast in Jane Eyre: Brontë's New Fairy Tale
2 Eve's Legacy: Redemption and Writing a New Mother in Brontë's European Progeny
3 The American Cinderella: A New Fit for Jane Eyre
4 Jane Eyre's Lost Slipper: Worlding the Counterintuitive Brontë Effect in America
Conclusion: Postcolonial Echoes of Cinderella
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Abigail Heiniger is Assistant Professor of English at Bluefield College, Virginia, USA.
"Highly recommended"
- S. A. Parker, Hiram College, CHOICE
"Abigail Heiniger’s monograph is an interesting, worthwhile addition to previous scholarship on the fairy-tale elements in Jane Eyre [...] Heiniger presents us with two fascinating arguments: that Brontë incorporated pre-Victorian fairy lore to create a changeling heroine in Jane Eyre, and that a distinctively American Cinderella rise tale became central to the female bildungsroman on this continent."
- Theodora Goss, Boston University, Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
