Charlotte: The Final Journey of Jane Eyre - Hardcover

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A manuscript is discovered purporting to be the work of Charlotte Bronte. The manuscript, both remarkable and surprising, offers a darker, alternative ending to the story of Jane and Mr. Rochester in the classic Jane Eyre.
Freed from the constraints of Victorian modesty and subservience, D. M. Thomas' modern 'Jane Eyre' is sexually and politically enlightened, but also troubled and sometimes cruel. Jane's damaged personality resonates at the centre of this haunting book.
D. M. Thomas uses the basic elements of Jane Eyre to tease the tangle of Victorian melodrama into a new form. By transporting the action to modern day Martinique, he examines the changing patterns of slavery and colonialism. Pursuing the unforgettable characters of Jane and Rochester through time, D. M. Thomas brings them into focus for the modern reader.

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D.M. Thomas is a poet and the author of several novels, including The White Hotel, which won the P.E.N. Prize and L.A. Times Fiction Prize. He lives in Great Britain, and recently received praise for his biography, Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in his Life.
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Of the making of sequels and prequels to Jane Eyre, there seems to be no end. Thomas's novel is conscious of the tradition, saluting Jean Rhys as well as Charlotte Bront‰. Miranda Stevenson, the narrator through most of the book, is the daughter of an English eccentric, a scholar and artist who engaged the young Miranda in ambiguous incestuous playacting. Now nearly 40, Miranda is a wife and mother. Having just come out of a "breakdown," she goes to Martinique to recuperate, taking advantage of an offer to give a lecture on Charlotte Bront‰. While there, she satisfies a surreptitiously racist fetish by seducing black men. Miranda's account of her sexual exploits is interspersed with political commentary she is the type who deplores the imperialist, genocidal foundations of Western affluence while relying wholly on the perquisites it gives her. Into this framework, Thomas inserts a continuation of Jane Eyre. This derives from a fraud Miranda perpetrated on her father a long time ago, when she successfully imitated Charlotte Bront‰'s handwriting to pen an account of Jane's brief, unhappy marriage to Rochester. Rochester, it seems, is not entirely satisfactory in bed, and she is finally enlightened about the sexual act by a friend. When Jane confronts Rochester with his sexual reluctance, he rides off into the night and breaks his neck. Unfortunately, Thomas's pastiche of Bront‰ is so dreadful that if Miranda's father were truly an eccentric genius, he'd easily see through it. Miranda's Eurotrash narrative is a variation on Thomas's exploration of the "landscape of hysteria," as in The White Hotel, but the book fails to justify its exploitation of Bront‰'s story and name.

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  • PublisherDuckbacks
  • Publication date2000
  • ISBN 10 0715630040
  • ISBN 13 9780715630044
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages173
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