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Schlossberg, ‘“Th e Low, Vague Hum of Numbers”: Th e Malthusian Economies of Jane

Eyre’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 29:2 (2001), pp. 489–506.

10. J. M. Labbe, Romantic Visualities: Landscape, Gender and Romanticism (Hampshire and
    London: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), p. xii–xiii.


11. Critical consensus suggests that if a Victorian female Bildungsroman were possible, Jane
    Eyre would be it; as to whether it can be called a true Bildungsroman – especially given
    its concerns with romance and its home-going conclusion – critics diff er. Sharon Locy
    notes that Jane’s journey fi ts neatly into the tradition of the Bildungsroman, but that this
    narrative is paired with Jane’s consistent movement back to Rochester, making the novel
    a split between masculine and feminine narratives. Melodie Monahan notes a similar
    split between what she identifi es in the novel as a quest narrative and a romance narra-
    tive, writing that the novel’s romance narrative does not call for the same agency as its
    quest narrative, and that the ‘heading out’ narrative of the quest therefore comes into
    confl ict with the home-going narrative of the romance. S. Locy, ‘Travel and Space in
    Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre’, Pacifi c Coast Philolog y, 37 (2002), pp. 105–21, on p. 107;
    M. Monahan, ‘Heading Out is Not Going Home’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–
    1900 , 28 (1998), pp. 589–608, on p. 605.


12. Brontë, Jane Eyre, pp. 5–6.


13. Ibid., p. 108.


14. Ibid., p. 93.


15. Ibid., p. 99.


16. Ibid., p. 104.


17. Ibid., pp. 208, 220, 234, 267 (she is also ‘elfi sh’: pp. 108, 222), 223; 234, 118.


18. Ibid., pp. 215–16.


19. Ibid., p. 271.


20. Ibid., p. 272.


21. Ibid., p. 252.


22. Ibid., p. 274.


23. Ibid., p. 277.


24. Ibid.


25. E. Jordan, Th e Women’s Movement and Women’s Employment in Nineteenth Century Brit-
    ain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), p. 3.


26. Brontë, Jane Eyre, p. 278.


27. Ibid., p. 279.


28. Ibid., p. 303.


29. Ibid., p. 279.


30. Ibid., pp. 278–9.


31. Ibid., p. 286.


32. C. Mathieson, this volume, pp. 87–102, on p. 102.


33. Brontë, Jane Eyre, p. 281.


34. Ibid., p. 274.


35. Davison, ‘Th e Victorian Gothic and Gender’, p. 125; Jordan, Th e Women’s Movement
    and Women’s Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain, pp. 3–5.


36. Brontë, Jane Eyre, p. 297.


37. Ibid., pp. 304, 313, 316, 322, 319, 327, 334, 339, 345, 350.


38. Ibid., pp. 93, 304.


39. Ibid., p. 344.


40. Ibid., p. 347.