Associate's Lecture by Anita Allen (Jane Eyre)

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Dr. Anita LaFrance Allen, a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, will give a lecture entitled "The Jurisprudence of Jane Eyre, Revisited" for the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature.

In Jane's deeply private world, law, morality, and religion align to constrain her choices. She feels like a slave, glimpses at freedom, and chooses subordination. (Are contemporary women doing the same thing?) Dr. Allen describes the pivotal role of law in the noel, the feminism, the slavery, the life of confinement in houses, great and small. How is home not hell? What does it mean to have a life circumscribed by law and houses?