Reading Bronte'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 Brontes / Helena Michie -- Jane Eyre in later lives : intertextual strategies in women's self-definition / Patsy Stonemen -- Romance and anti-romance : from Bronte's Jane Eyre to Rhys's Wide sargasso sea / Joyce Carol Oates.