136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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Jane Eyre is a feminist Pilgrim’s Progress in which the heroine asserts the moral equality and responsibility of men and women—an outrageous claim for a female, and moreover a governess, to make. Pat Macpherson reads in Jane Eyre the dramatic dynamic of adolescence itself, as a Gothic landscape of battles and pacts, seductions and betrayals, transgressions and policings, where identity is forged... Read more
Introduction 1. Portrait of a Governess, Disconnected, Poor, and Plain 2. Wild Nights 3. Heavenly Father 4. From Bad Girl to Good Woman
Biography
Pat Macpherson taught English at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia for 13 years and received her MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury.
