"Jane Eyre" como autobiografía
ISSN: 0210-9689
Ano de publicación: 1992
Número: 16
Páxinas: 57-66
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: ES: Revista de filología inglesa
Resumo
Everybody is by now familiar with the Feminist and the Marxist interpretations of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Something which has usually been ignored, however, is the fact that Bronte subtitled the book "An Autobiography". The newest interpretations of the book precisely approach it not as Bronte's novel, but as Jane Eyre's autobiography, or rather, as her secularized version of spiritual autobiography. A few women theorists have recently focused on the biblical allusions of the novel to prove how Bronte tried to subvert the traditional biblical typology and thus entered the forbidden world of hermeneutic Victorian autobiography that, initiated by Bunyan, only men like Newman, Ruskin or Carlyle inhabited.