Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and index.
Reading Brontë's novels : the confessional tradition / Carol Bock -- Pandora's box : subjectivity, class, and sexuality in socialist feminist criticism / Cora Kaplan -- The advertisement of Jane Eyre / Ronald Thomas -- Slave as emancipator ; Sati as feminine ideal / Jenny Sharpe -- Jane Eyre : lurid hieroglyphics / Sally Shuttleworth -- "Dreadful to me" : Jane Eyre in history / Heather Glenn -- Scopophilia, art, and distinction : the psychical and social meanings of Jane's paintings ; The "divided ideal of social duty" / Beth Newman -- "That stormy sisterhood" : portrait of the Brontës / Helena Michie -- Jane Eyre in later lives : intertextual strategies in women's self-definition / Patsy Stonemen -- Romance and anti-romance : from Brontë's Jane Eyre to Rhys's Wide sargasso sea / Joyce Carol Oates.
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Divided into three sections, this work explores a range of interpretive strategies applied to readings of "Jane Eyre". The last section includes essays that frame the historical and social contexts out of which "Jane Eyre" arose, and investigate the critical reception and afterlife of the text." - publisher.