Bucknell University Bucknell Digital Commons Honors Theses Student Theses 2014 "She Was Not Even Normal": Unreliable Narratives of Female Insanity in Jane Eyre, Rebecca, and Wide Sargasso Sea Carolyn Elizabeth Williams Bucknell University,
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[email protected]. iv Acknowledgements I would like to thank my wonderful family and my fantastic friends, for their interest, support, and encouragement throughout this project, and for their many hours spent talking about these books, and watching innumerable film adaptations with me. I am also very grateful to my terrific advisor, Ghislaine McDayter, for her invaluable insight and spectacular patience over the past year. Thank you! v Contents List of Figures…………………………………………………………………………….vi Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………..vii Introduction…………………………...….………………………………………………..1 Chapter One: Distrusting Jane Eyre…………………………..…………………………14 Chapter Two: Complicating the Madwoman in Rebecca....……………………..............51