Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
I. Storytelling at Haworth
2. The Professor’s Audience: The Private Circle and “The Public at Large”
3. The Political Arts of Reading and Storytelling in Jane Eyre
4. Storytelling and the Multiple Audiences of Shirley
5. Encompassing the Truth: Luce Snowe as Interpretant
Conclusion
Appendix. Reading Brontë’s Novels: The Confessional Tradition
Notes
References
Index