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Villette

By: Charlotte Brontë

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Paperback | 15 July 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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 adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey--a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.

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"Bronte's finest novel."--Virginia Woolf

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Published: 20th December 2006

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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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