Imperialism, Reform and the Making of

This new study demonstrates the precision of Brontë's historical setting of Jane Eyre . Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Brontë and her characters, mapping relations of genre and gender across the novel's articulation of questions of imperial history and relations, reform, racialization and the making of Englishness.

Sue Thomas is Professor of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

List of Abbreviations	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Christianity and the State of Slavery	p. 8
The Tropical Extravagance of Bertha Mason	p. 31
Monstrous Martyrdom and the 'Overshadowing Tree' of Philanthropy	p. 54
The Ferment of Restlessness	p. 71
Playing Jane Eyre at the Victoria Theatre in 1848	p. 92
An 1859 Caribbean Perspective on Jane Eyre	p. 104
Timeline	p. 127
Notes	p. 130
Works Cited	p. 147
Works Consulted	p. 162
Index	p. 165
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Imperialism, Reform and the Making of Englishness in Jane Eyre

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