In the Window-Seat: Vision and Power in Jane Eyre

The Sultan and the Slave: Feminist Orientalism and the Structure of "Jane Eyre"

“…In the despotic state, where one always obeys 'blindly,' the blind man is the emblematic figure of the subject" (73, translation mine). See alsoBellis 1987 for an exploration of the politics of vision in Jane Eyre.…”