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Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: A Case Book Elsie B. Michie, Editor OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Charlotte Bronte¨’s Jane Eyre A C AS E BOO K casebooks in criticism Recent Titles James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook Edited by Mark A. Wollaeger Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Casebook Edited by Isidore Okpewho William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook Edited by Fred Hobson Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth: A Casebook Edited by Carol J. Singley James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Casebook Edited by Derek Attridge Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: A Casebook Edited by Gene M. Moore Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: A Casebook Edited by John F. Callahan Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane: A Casebook Edited by James Naremore Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho: A Casebook Edited by Robert Kolker D.H. 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PublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress,Inc. 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NewYork10016 www.oup.com OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofOxfordUniversityPress. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData CharlotteBronte¨’sJaneEyre:acasebook/editedbyElsieB.Michie. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13978-0-19-517778-7;978-0-19-517779-4(pbk.) ISBN0-19-517778-9;0-19-517779-7(pbk.) 1. Bronte¨,Charlotte,1816–1855.JaneEyre. 2. Governessesinliterature. I. Michie,ElsieB.(Elsie Browning),1948– PR4167.J5C472006 823'.8—dc22 2005014213 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica onacid-freepaper Credits J J J Bock, Carol, “Reading Bronte¨’s Novels: The Confessional Tradition,” in Charlotte Brontë and the Storyteller’s Audience(IowaCity:UniversityofIowa Press,1992),155–65.ReprintedbypermissionoftheUniversityofIowa. Glen, Heather, “‘Dreadful to Me’: Jane Eyre and History,” in Charlotte Brontë: 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. vi Credits 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 Brontë 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 J J J 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 viii Contents “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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Jane Eyre is one of the most well-loved and widely read works in the canon, popular at both the high school and university levels. The casebook provides a series of essays that are lucidly and passionately written, and carefully researched and argued while still being accessible to the general readi