Table Of ContentCharlotte Brontë’s
Jane Eyre:
A Case Book
Elsie B. Michie,
Editor
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Charlotte Bronte¨’s
Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte¨’s
Jane Eyre
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A C A S E B O O K
Edited by
Elsie B. Michie
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2006
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Bock, Carol, “Reading Bronte¨’s Novels: The Confessional Tradition,” in
Charlotte Bront¨e and the Storyteller’s Audience(IowaCity:UniversityofIowa
Press,1992),155–65.ReprintedbypermissionoftheUniversityofIowa.
Glen, Heather, “‘Dreadful to Me’: Jane Eyre and History,” in Charlotte
Bront¨e: The Imagination in History (Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress,2002),
65–82. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press.
Kaplan, Cora, “Pandora’s Box: Subjectivity, Class, and Sexuality in So-
cialist Feminist Criticism,” in Sea Changes: Culture andFeminism(London:
Verso, 1986), 170–76. Reprinted by permission of Verso Ltd.
Michie, Helena, “‘That Stormy Sisterhood’: Portrait of the Bronte¨s,”in
Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture (New York:
OxfordUniversityPress,1992),51–57.ReprintedbypermissionofOx-
ford University Press.
Newman, Beth, “Scopophilia, Art, and Distinction: The Psychical and
SocialMeaningsofJane’sPaintings”and“The‘DividedIdealofSocial
Duty,’” in Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, andVictorian
Femininity (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004), 38–45. Reprinted by
permission of Ohio University Press.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, “Romance and Anti-Romance: From Bronte¨’s Jane
Eyre to Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea,” Virginia Quarterly 61:1 (1985): 44–58.
Reprinted with permission from the author.
Sharpe, Jenny, “Slave as Emancipator” and “Sati as Feminine Ideal,” in
AllegoriesofEmpire:TheFigureoftheWomanintheColonialText(Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 39–55. First appeared as “The
Unspeakable Limits of Rape: Colonial Violence as Counterinsur-
gency,” Genders 10 (1991): 25–46. Reprinted by permission of the Uni-
versity of Texas Press.
Shuttleworth, Sally, “Jane Eyre: ‘Lurid Hieroglyphics,’” in Charlotte Bront¨e
and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998),
148–63. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press.
Stoneman, Patsy, “Jane Eyre in Later Lives: Intertextual Strategies in
Women’s Self-Definition,” in Fatal Attractions:Re-scriptingRomanceinCon-
temporaryLiteratureandFilm,ed.LynnePearceandGinaWisker(London:
Pluto Press, 1998), 38–50. Reprinted by permission of Pluto Press.
Thomas, Ronald, “The Advertisement of JaneEyre,”inDreamsofAuthority:
Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1990), 148–70. Reprinted by permission of Cornell University
Press.
Contents
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Introduction 3
elsie b. michie
ReadingBronte¨’sNovels:TheConfessionalTradition 23
carol bock
Pandora’sBox:Subjectivity,Class,andSexualityinSocialist
FeministCriticism 39
cora kaplan
TheAdvertisementofJaneEyre 47
ronald thomas
ExcerptsfromAllegoriesofEmpire 79
jenny sharpe
JaneEyre:“LuridHieroglyphics” 105
sally shuttleworth
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“DreadfultoMe”:JaneEyreandHistory 127
heather glen
ExcerptsfromSubjectsonDisplay 155
beth newman
“ThatStormySisterhood”:PortraitoftheBronte¨s 167
helena michie
JaneEyreinLaterLives:IntertextualStrategiesinWomen’s
Self-Definition 177
patsy stoneman
RomanceandAnti-Romance:FromBronte¨’sJaneEyreto
Rhys’sWideSargassoSea 195
joyce carol oates
Suggested Reading 209
Charlotte Bronte¨’s
Jane Eyre
A C AS E BOO K
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