Villette
"Charlotte Bronte's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls' school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Bronte's last. Modelled on Bronte's own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroine's relationships with the fiery professor M.…
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- Full title :Villette / Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Kate Lawson ; introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky.
Summary
"Charlotte Bronte's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls' school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Bronte's last. Modelled on Bronte's own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroine's relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the school's powerful headmistres, Madame Beck, are described in her first-person narration." "This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Bronte's own time in Brussels."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Broadview Editions
- Place of Publication:Peterborough, Ont
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (647 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1551114615, 9781551114613, 9781459300361, 145930036X
- oclc:ocn166335048
- LC Classification:PR4167
- Dewey Decimal:823/.8
Table of Contents
Pages:1 to 32; Pages:33 to 64; Pages:65 to 96; Pages:97 to 128; Pages:129 to 160; Pages:161 to 192; Pages:193 to 224; Pages:225 to 256; Pages:257 to 288; Pages:289 to 320; Pages:321 to 352; Pages:353 to 384; Pages:385 to 416; Pages:417 to 448; Pages:449 to 480; Pages:481 to 512; Pages:513 to 544; Pages:545 to 576; Pages:577 to 608; Pages:609 to 640; Pages:641 to 648.
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