Villette, Charlotte Brontë

Author(s)

• Nestor, Pauline

Bibliographic Information

Villette, Charlotte Brontë

edited by Pauline Nestor

（New casebooks）

Macmillan Education, 1992

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780333551370

Description

This book collects a selection of contributions to the study of "Villette" in the last 20 years from critics such as Kate Millett, Terry Eagleton, Mary Jacobus, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. It offers a range of theoretical perspectives, setting feminist, Marxist, post-structuralist and new historicist readings against more traditional accounts of the novel. It also provides an extended introduction, context notes for each essay and an annotated bibliography to help acquaint the reader both with the central critical issues raised by Bronte's text and with the important new developments in literary critical theory.

Table of Contents

• "Villette" - the romantic experience as psychoanalysis, Helene Moglen
• sexual politics in "Villette"
• the buried life of Lucy Snowe, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• substance and shadow - reading reality in "Villette", Tony Tanner
• "faithful narrator" or "partial eulogist" - first person narration in Bronte's "Villette", Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
• the reflecting reader in "Villette", Terry Eagleton
• the buried letter - feminism and romanticism in "Villette", Mary Jacobus
• the surveillance of the sleepless eye - the constitution of neurosis in "Villette", Sally Shuttleworth.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780333551387

Description

The Villette New Casebook collects a selection of the most important contributions to the study of Villette in the last twenty years from critics such as Kate Millett, Terry Eagleton, Mary Jacobus, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. It offers a range of theoretical perspectives, setting feminist, Marxist, poststructuralist and New Historicist readings against more traditional accounts of the novel.

Table of Contents

Introduction Essays by.- Terry Eagleton.- Myths of Power Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar.- Madwoman in the Attic Mary Jacobus.- Reading Woman Kate Millett.- Sexual Politics Helene Moglen.- Charlotte Bronte, The Self-Conceived Nancy Rabinowitz.- Faithful Narrator Sally Shuttleworth.- The Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye Brenda Silver.- The Reflecting Reader in Villette Tony Tanner.- Introduction to Penguin edition of Villette.

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Details

• NCID: BA18940644
• ISBN:
  • 0333551370
  • 0333551389
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 171 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 823.8
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA14256210