"Drear flight and homeless wandering": gender, economics, and crises of identity in mid-Victorian women's fiction
My dissertation begins with the central crisis of Jane Eyre, in which Jane flees Thornfield Hall after her failed marriage, is unable to find work, and almost dies of exposure and starvation on the moors. She finds herself asking "What was I to do? Where to go? Oh, intolerable questions, when I...
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University of Iowa
2014
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6809 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8308&context=etd |