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Contemporary Reviews on Jane Eyre and Gender Ideology
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The Korean Society Of Nineteenth Century Literature In English Nineteenth Century Literature In English Vol.10 No.2 KCI Accredited Journals
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2006.8
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177 - 193 (17page)

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This article examines the role of the Victorian reviews on Jane Eyre in both enforcing Victorian gender ideology and revealing its fissure. The reviews functioned as a social structure which reproduced and naturalized Victorian gender schema. But the gender ideology was also a site of cultural contestation during the middle of the nineteenth century, despite repeated invocations of ‘Angel in the House’ in the reviews.
To Victorian reviewers, Bronte’s treatment of love was a consistently vexing issue, refuting the language of separate spheres. The anger of book reviewers was directed toward the heroine's morality, especially her suspicious sexual purity. But Bronte's plain-featured heroine who was emphatically “not an angel,” was also extremely fascinating. Some reviewers even celebrated her power of morality. This contradictory attitude shows that gender ideology is not fixed one but the site of constant struggle.
The debate on gender identity of Currer Bell, Charlotte Bronte's pseudonym, also reveals that the Victorian gender scheme was unstable. Critical reaction to this gender-neutral pseudonym was frustrated bafflement. But whether the reviewers regarded Bell as a woman writer or as a male writer, both of them ironically judged her identity based on the same gender schema. This curious contradiction is a fundamental challenge to Victorian gender ideology.

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