Nineteenth-Century Morality and "The Decline in the Sentiment of Sex". Henry James's "The Bostonians" and Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"

Essay from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, James Cook University (James Cook University), course: Women in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, language: English, abstract: The aftermath of the traumas of the American Civil War saw an unleashing of intellectual, cultural and economic forces, which accelerated the rate of transformation in America...