@jashkensas what you want though would break the way closures are handled in javascript. What you should do if you still want access to Accountview is to trap a variable with a reference to it in the closure. Using your jquery example:

  AccountView.prototype.render = function() {
    $(".account").click( { that: this }, function(e) {
      // 'that' now holds a reference to AccountView
    });
  };

If you don't want to use (or you are using an older version of jquery without the eventData) you could use a closure:

  $(".account").click( (function(that) {
    return function(e) {
      // 'that' now holds a reference to AccountView
    })(this);
  });