Mine Sevinc

On the Threshold of Feminism: Gender, Autonomy, and the Limits of Resistance in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

This study examines Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) as a proto-feminist text, analysing the ways in which the novel simultaneously advances and retreats from feminist ideals. It is argued that the novel’s treatment of female identity, economic independence, and romantic love both approaches and departs from feminis...