A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue A General Survey -- The Strange After-Lives of Jane Eyre -- Part I Novel Adaptations -- The Future That Has Happened: Narrative Freedom and Déjà lu in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- Landscape and Character in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea -- The Intertextual Status of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: Dependence on a Victorian Classic and Independence as a Post-Colonial Novel -- 'The Second Mrs. Rochesters': Telling Untold Stories of Jane Eyre's (Im-)Possible Married Lives -- Pathologies of Sexuality, Empire and Slavery: D.M. Thomas's Charlotte -- Brontë Badland: Jane Eyre reconfigured as Colonial Gothic in Mardi McConnochie's Coldwater -- Jane's Angry Daughters: Anger in Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac, Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall, Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy -- Jane Eyre in Outer Space: Victorian Motifs in Post-Feminist Science Fiction -- Invasions into Literary Texts, Re-plotting and Transfictional Migration in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair -- A Parallelquel of a Classic Text and Reification of the Fictional - the Playful Parody of Jane Eyre in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair -- An Eyre-Less Affair? Jasper Fforde's Seeming Elision of Jane -- From Thornfield Hall to Manderley and Beyond: Jane Eyre and Rebecca as Transformations of the Fairy Tale, the Novel of Development, and the Gothic Novel -- Part II Visual Adaptations - Film and other Pictorial Media -- "Picturing in me a hero of romance": The Legacy of Jane Eyre's Byronic Hero -- Children in the Jane Eyre Films -- Reader, She Married Him: Abridging and Adapting Jane Eyre for Children and Young Adults -- Jane Eyre for Young Readers: Three Illustrated Adaptations -- Jane Eyre Illustrated -- Paula Rego's Visual Adaptations of Jane Eyre.

Part III Stage Adaptations - Opera and Drama -- Myth-making Opera: David Malouf and Michael Berkeley's Jane Eyre -- The Madwoman in the Classic: Intermediality, Female Subjectivity, and Dance in Michael Berkeley's Jane Eyre -- Mad Intertextuality: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, After Mrs Rochester -- "From a Land of Hot Rain and Hurricanes" - Polly Teale's Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre -- John Brougham's Stage Adaptation of Jane Eyre - a Marxist Reading of Brontë's Novel? -- Blasting Jane: Jane Eyre as an Intertext of Sarah Kane's Blasted -- Epilogue A Dramatiser's Point-of-View -- Reader: Who Wrote You? An Autocritical Exercise upon Jane Eyre -- Notes on Contributors.