SOURCE: "'The Frenzied Moment': Sex and Insanity in Jane Eyre," in Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel, University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, pp. 13-37.
In the following essay, Rigney maintains that in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Bronte suggests an association between sexuality and the loss of one's identity, and consequently, one's sanity.
