Edited by Katie R. Peel, professor of Victorian literature and Women's Studies at The University of North Carolina, this volume includes a variety of fresh approaches, including essays using feminist, reader-response, postcolonial, and performance theories. The essays’ topics have also been chosen in order to enhance understanding of the novel and existing scholarship, and include the role of Adele, humor, religion, games and gamesmanship, conversation, and women’s space in Jane Eyre, as well as a comparison to Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. Critical Insights: Jane Eyre is divided into four sections: an introductory section, a “Critical Contexts” section, a “Critical Readings” Section, and a “Resources” section. The Introduction considers why we still turn to Jane Eyre. It takes a new historical approach that connects a passage in the novel to an image that would be familiar to contemporary readers. The “Critical Contexts” section takes four distinct approaches to the novel, while the “Critical Readings” section consists of nine new essays that take a range of approaches to various topics in Jane Eyre, such as the conflict between obedience and resistance, and submission and dominance.