complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret. Includes criticism from feminist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, cultural, and Marxist perspectives.
