Imperialism, reform and the making of Englishness in Jane Eyre

夏洛特勃朗特通常被认为是不精确的时间段的简爱。从勃朗特的历史典故到西印度奴隶起义，我打算写一本关于小说及其接受方面的开创性著作，将它们和勃朗特的少年时代与19世纪20年代和30年代英国改革政治的轴心联系起来。我借鉴创新的主要研究的性别，帝国和英格兰在这些轴的关系，并解决勃朗特的调用在1847年的早期改革复杂的影响。

Charlotte Brontë is usually thought to be imprecise about the time period of Jane Eyre. Working from a close chronology established from Brontë's historical allusions to West Indian slave rebellions, I propose to write a pioneering book about the novel and aspects of its reception, situating them and Brontë's juvenilia in relation to axes of reform politics in Britain in the 1820s and 1830s. I draw on innovative primary research on the articulation of gender, empire and Englishness in relation to these axes and address the implications of Brontë's invocation in 1847 of an earlier reform complex.