Villette - Couverture souple

Brontë, Charlotte

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551114615 ISBN 13 : 9781551114613

Editeur : Broadview Press Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Charlotte Brontë’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, Brontë’s last. Modelled on Brontë’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 headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic 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 Brontë’s own time in Brussels.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate Lawson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo. She is the co-author with Lynn Shakinovsky of The Marked Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Literature (State University of New York Press, 2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551114615
• ISBN 13: 9781551114613
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 648
• Éditeur: Lawson Kate
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