Villette

by Bronte, Charlotte

• ISBN13: 9781419192685
• ISBN10: 141919268X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Kessinger Pub

Summary

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girlsa boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the schoolas English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte BrontAas last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Villette: the Romantic Experience as Psychoanalysis	p. 16
Sexual Politics in Villette	p. 32
The Buried Life of Lucy Snowe	p. 42
Substance and Shadow: Reading Reality in Villette	p. 58
'Faithful Narrator' or 'Partial Eulogist': First Person Narration in Bronte's Villette	p. 68
The Reflecting Reader in Villette	p. 83
Myths of Power in Villette	p. 107
The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism in Villette	p. 121
'The Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye': the Constitution of Neurosis in Villette	p. 141
Further Reading	p. 163
Notes on Contributors	p. 166
Index	p. 169
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