Villette

Name: Villette
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ISBN: 9780553212433

ISBN-10: 0553212435

ISBN-13: 9780553212433

Edition: 1986

Authors: Charlotte Bronte, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

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With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquetter. This first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of…

Book details

List price: $5.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 4.02" wide x 7.01" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgements


General Editors' Preface


Introduction




Villette: the Romantic Experience as Psychoanalysis




Sexual Politics in Villette




The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe




Substance and Shadow: Reading Reality in Villette




'Faithful Narrator' or 'Partial Eulogist': First Person Narration in Bronte's Villette




The Reflecting Reader in Villette




Myths of Power in Villette




The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism in Villette




'The Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye': the Constitution of Neurosis in Villette



Further Reading


Notes on Contributors


Index