Date of Award
Fall 2015
Document Type
Distinction Paper
Degree Name
English Literary Studies-BA
Department
English
Advisor
Dr. Margaret Koehler
First Committee Member
Dr. Jonathan DeCoster
Second Committee Member
Dr. Patricia Frick
Keywords
Jane Eyre, Divergent, The Hunger Games, Dystopian, Heroine, Bronte
Subject Categories
English Language and Literature | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America
Abstract
Young women make up a majority of young adult dystopian fiction readers, and these female readers can’t get enough of the strong, independent, inspiring female heroines taking center stage in popular young adult novels like, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Divergent by Veronica Roth, but through scholarly research and critical analysis I argue that many of these young adult novels feature heroines who descend at least in part from a Victorian heroine named Jane Eyre.
Recommended Citation
Bean, Emmanuela Ann, "“Jane Eyre: An Ancestor Heroine for Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Literature”" (2015). Undergraduate Distinction Papers. 37.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stu_dist/37