from Part II - Authors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
Responding to an early review that suggested Jane Eyre (1847) “bears no impress of being written at all,” this chapter shows that the novel’s rhetorical techniques are deployed to significant effect, not least in balancing effects of hurry and control, far more than the contemporary judgment allowed. The chapter delineates how Charlotte Brontë’s prose style differs from Jane Austen’s, a writer with whom she is often contrasted, in registering its heroine’s passion and peculiarity.
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