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- W2169285932 abstract "Jane Eyre, tracing a woman’s extraordinary progress through life in the patriarchal society, caused a sensation in contemporary London literary society at the time of publication and brought Charlotte Bronte immediate fame. However, in its early reviews, Jane Eyre was deemed improper and was even defamed by some of Charlotte Bronte’s contemporaries in terms of its subject matter, the language and its “subversive tendency” (Poovey, 1988), particularly in light of the author’s gender. This paper explains the cause of the defamation of Jane Eyre by tracing the historical, social and cultural background of Victorian times. Through exploring Victorian woman’s social status, the patriarchal criterion of an ideal Victorian woman, and the Victorians’ expectation about a woman writer’s appropriate writing that reflects the virtues of an ideal Victorian woman, it is possible to understand the inevitability of Bronte’s defamation. To Charlotte Bronte’s contemporaries, the image of Jane Eyre was too much unlike “the Angel in the House”, namely the domestic feminine ideal that the Victorians extolled (Pan, 2003), which explains the reason why the novel incurred censure. The Victorians saw women’s writings with strong prejudice. A novel by a woman should be feminine, which must concern women’s proper sphere and eulogize a domestic angle, otherwise the novel would be condemned improper and the woman must be “pretty nearly unsexed” as James Lorimer commented (as cited in Allott, 1974). If we reject the strong prejudice against women writers, then those factors condemned by Bronte’s contemporaries for transcending the proper sphere of Victorian women, can be recognized as her great feminine consciousness embodied in Jane Eyre. Key terms: Jane Eyre, defame, the proper sphere, “the Angel in the House”, domestic feminine ideal, author’s gender" @default.
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- W2169285932 title "Jane Eyre: improper sphere for a Victorian woman writer" @default.
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