Jane Eyre has been called everything from a major work by a minor literary figure to the crowning achievement of a short-lived literary genius. A romance with a plain, unsophisticated heroine and flawed hero, the novel breaks the conventions of its genre. The title, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Charlotte Bronte, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
