This new study demonstrates the precision of Brontė's historical setting of Jane Eyre . Thomas addresses the historical worlding of Brontė 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.
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Christianity and the State of Slavery The Tropical Extravagance of Bertha Mason Monstrous Martyrdom and the "Overshadowing Tree" of Philanthropy The Ferment of Restlessness Playing Jane Eyre at the Victoria Theatre in 1848 An 1859 Caribbean Reworking of Jane Eyre Appendix 1: Timeline Notes Works Cited Works Consulted Index
