"BEYOND WHAT LANGUAGE CAN EXPRESS:" TRANSCENDING THE LIMITS OF THE SELF IN JANE EYRE
CA Farkas - Victorian Review, 1994 - JSTOR
CA Farkas
Victorian Review, 1994•JSTORCharlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, may have come twenty years too late to
be considered a true Gothic romance, but in one important respect the novel does re-affirm a
central characteristic of the Gothic tradition. According to Eugenia C. DeLamotte, the Gothic
provides a forum for the exploration of a variety of anxieties" that resolve themselves most
fundamentally into a concern about the boundaries of the self (14):...[Psychological, moral,
spiritual, and intellectual energies expended in [an] engagement with the forces of violence …
be considered a true Gothic romance, but in one important respect the novel does re-affirm a
central characteristic of the Gothic tradition. According to Eugenia C. DeLamotte, the Gothic
provides a forum for the exploration of a variety of anxieties" that resolve themselves most
fundamentally into a concern about the boundaries of the self (14):...[Psychological, moral,
spiritual, and intellectual energies expended in [an] engagement with the forces of violence …
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, may have come twenty years too late to be considered a true Gothic romance, but in one important respect the novel does re-affirm a central characteristic of the Gothic tradition. According to Eugenia C. DeLamotte, the Gothic provides a forum for the exploration of a variety of anxieties" that resolve themselves most fundamentally into a concern about the boundaries of the self (14):
...[Psychological, moral, spiritual, and intellectual energies expended in [an] engagement with the forces of violence are generated by an anxiety about boundaries: those that shut the protagonist off from the world, those that shut the protagonist in, and those that separate the individual self from something that is
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