![]() ![]() Victorian novels with similar styles and goals include Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, David Copperfield (1849-50), and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855). Written under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights was also published in 1847 the year before Emily Brontes death aged just 30. Her experience, though more intense, is on a level with our own. When Charlotte wrote she said with eloquence and splendour and passion I love, I hate, I suffer. ![]() Brontë uses Jane's marriage as a metaphor for resolving England's political issues. Wuthering Heights is a more difficult book to understand than Jane Eyre, because Emily was a greater poet than Charlotte. Victorian novels, including Jane Eyre, depict social panoramas with characters representing different economic and social classes, as well as gender differences. Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age story, in which the protagonist's aspirations are set against the pressures and expectations of society. But as Jane matures, her autobiography likewise takes on Victorian themes and characteristics. Jane Eyre is indebted to earlier Gothic novels, with its mysteries, supernatural events, and picturesque scenery. The most popular literary form in the Victorian period was the novel, and Jane Eyre illustrates many of its defining characteristics: social relevance, plain style, and the narrative of an individual's inner thoughts. ![]()
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