The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature

The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • The Victorian Governess: Status Incongruence in Family and Society
  • A Perfect Treadmill of Learning
• Criticism: Social Roles And Economic Conditions
  • Genteel Emigrants
  • The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre
  • ‘The Dullest Life Ever Dragged on by Mortal …’
  • Fighting for Respect
  • An introduction to A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter
• Criticism: Fictional Governesses
  • Reflections of a Governess: Image and Distortion in The Turn of the Screw
  • Exposure in The Turn of the Screw
  • Jamesian Parody, Jane Eyre, and The Turn of the Screw
  • Reader, I Married Him
  • Jane Eyre: The Tale of the Governess
  • Sheridan Le Fanu's Ungovernable Governesses
• Further Reading