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Villette.
Title:
Villette.
Author:
Brontë, Charlotte.
ISBN:
9780191560590
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1177 pages)
Series:
Oxford Worlds Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Select Bibliography -- A Chronology of Charlotte Brontë -- VILLETTE -- Contents -- I. Bretton -- II. Paulina -- III. The Playmates -- IV. Miss Marchmont -- V. Turning a New Leaf -- VI. London -- VII. Villette -- VIII. Madame Beck -- IX. Isidore -- X. Dr. John -- XI. The Portresse's Cabinet -- XII. The Casket -- XIII. A Sneeze Out of Season -- XIV. The Fête -- XV. The Long Vacation -- XVI. Auld Lang Syne -- XVII. La Terrasse -- XVIII. We Quarrel -- XIX. The Cleopatra -- XX. The Concert -- XXI. Reaction -- XXII. The Letter -- XXIII. Vashti -- XXIV. M. de Bassompierre -- XXV. The Little Countess -- XXVI. A Burial -- XXVII. The Hotel Crécy -- XXVIII. The Watchguard -- XXIX. Monsieur's Fête -- XXX. M. Paul -- XXXI. The Dryad -- XXXII. The First Letter -- XXXIII. M. Paul Keeps His Promise -- XXXIV. Malevola -- XXXV. Fraternity -- XXXVI. The Apple of Discord -- XXXVII. Sunshine -- XXXVIII. Cloud -- XXXIX. Old and New Acquaintance -- XL. The Happy Pair -- XLI. Faubourg Clotilde -- XLII. Finis -- Explanatory Notes -- Footnote.
Abstract:
I am only just returned to a sense of the real world about me, for I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre.' George Eliot Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and be loved. Based in part on Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is a cogent and dramatic exploration of a woman's response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. Its deployment of imagery comparable in power to that of Emily Bront--euml--;'s Wuthering Heights, and its use of comedyDSironic or exuberantDSin the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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