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Suggested Sources for Villette
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Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. New York: Barnes and Noble,
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Blake, Kathleen. Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of SelfPostponement. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1983.
Boone, Joseph. "Depolicing Villette: Surveillance, Invisibility, and the Female Erotics of
'Heretic Narrative.'" Novel 26 (1992): 20-42.
Boumelha, Penny. Charlotte Brontë. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 100122.
Briganti, Chiara. “Charlotte Brontë’s Villette: The History of Desire.” West Virginia
University Philological Papers 35 (1989): 8-20.
Burkhardt, Charles. Charlotte Brontë: A Psychosexual Study of her Novels. London:
Gollancz, 1973.
Carlisle, Janice. “The Face in the Mirror: Villette and the Conventions of Autobiography.
ELH 46 (1979): 262-89.
Chase, Karen. “Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Brontë, Charles
Dickens, George Eliot. New York: Methuen, 1984.
Chase, Richard. “The Brontës, or, Myth Domesticated.” In Forms of Modern Fiction: Essays
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Colby, Richard. “Villette and the Life of the Mind.” PMLA (1960):
Craik, W. A. The Brontë Novels. London: Methuen, 1968.
Crosby, Christina. “Charlotte Brontë’s Haunted Text.” SEL 24 (1984): 701-15.
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Eagleton, Terry. Myths of Power: A Marxist Study of the Brontës. Basingstoke and London:
Macmillan, 1975. 61-74.
Ewbank, Inga-Stina. Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Brontë Sisters as Early-Victorian
Female Novelists. London: Edward Arnold, 1966.
Forsyth, Beverly. “The Two Faces of Lucy Snowe: A Study in Deviant BBehavior.”
Studies in the Novel 29 (1997): 17-25.
Gendron, Charise. "Harriet Martineau and Virginia Woolf Reading Villette.” In McNees,
ed., Vol. III (Originally in Victorians Institute Journal 11 [1982-83]: 13-21)
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the
Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
Helfield, Randa. “Confession as Cover-Up in Brontë’s Villette.” English Studies in Canada
23.1 (1997): 59-72.
Hennelly, Mark M. “The ‘Surveillance of Desire’: Freud, Foucault and Villette.” Victorian
Literature and Culture 26.2 (1998): 421-40.
Hoeveler, Diane Long. “The Obscured Eye: Visual Imagery as Theme and Structure in
Villette.” Ball State University Forum 19.1 (1978): 23-30.
Hogan, Anne. “’Reading Men More Truly’: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.” Masculinity and
Spirituality in Victorian Culture. Ed. Andrew Bradstocki, et al. New York: St.
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Hunt, Linda. Villette: The Inward and the Outward Life." In McNees, ed., Vol 3. 689-95.
(Originally pub'd in Victorians Institute Journal 11 [1982-3]: 25-31.)
Jacobus, Mary. “The Buried Letter: Feminism and Romanticism in Villette. In Women
Writing About Women. London: Croom Helm, 1979. 42-60.
Kromm, Jane. “Visual Culture and Scopic Custom in Jane Eyre and Villette.” Victorian
Literature and Culture 26.2 (1998): 369-94.
Kucich, John. "Passionate Reserve and Reserved Passion in the Works of Charlotte
Brontë. In McNees, ed. Vol. IV (Originally pub'd in ELH 52.4 [Winter 1985]: 91337.)
Lawrence, Karen. “The Cypher: Disclosure and Reticence in Villette.” Nineteenth-Century
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Levy, Anita. “Public Spaces, Private Eyes: Gender and the Social Work of Aesthetics in
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 22.3 (2000): 391-416.
Litvak, Joseph. "Charlotte Brontë and the Scene of Instruction: Authority and Subversion
in Villette.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 42.4 (March 1988): 467-89.
McNees, Eleanor, ed. The Brontë Sisters: Critical Assessments. East Sussex, TN: Helm
Information, Ltd., 1996.
Marcus, Sharon. “Unamiable Villette: Lucy Snowe’s Passion.” (From Ch. 2, “Just
Reading.”) Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. 102-108.
Milbank, Alison. "'Handling the Veil': Charlotte Brontë." Daughters of the House: Modes of
the Gothic in Victorian Fiction. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992.
Moglen, Hélène. Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived. New York: W. W. Norton and
Company, 1976.
Newsom, Robert. “Villette and Bleak House: Authorizing Women.” Nineteenth-Century
Literature 46.1 (June 1991): 54-81.
Newton, Judith Lowder. Women, Power and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction,
1778-1860. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1981.
----. “Villette.” In Feminist Criticsm and Social Change. Judith Newton and Deborah
Rosenfelt, ed. New York: Methuen, 1985.
Nestor, Pauline. Female Friendships and Communities: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot,
Elizazbeth Gaskell. Oxord: Clarendon Press, 1985.
Peltason, Timothy. “Esther’s Will.” In Tambling. 205-227.
Platt, Carolyn. “How Feminist is Villette?” Women and Literature 3 [1975].
Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin. "'Faithful Narrator' or 'Partial Eulogist': First-Person Narration
in Brontë's Villette." In McNees, ed. Vol. III (Originally in The Journal of Narrative
Technique 15.3 [Fall '85]: 244-55)
Robbins,Ruth. “How Do I Look? Villette and Looking Different(ly).” Bronte Studies: The
Journal of the Bronte Society. 23.2 (2003 Nov): 215-24
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Sadoff, Diane. Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot ande Brontë on Fatherhood. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Salotto, Eleanor. “Villette and the Perversions of Female Identity.” In Carlson, Cindy L.
Robert L. Mazzola, and Susan M. Bernardo, ed. Gender Reconstructions:
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Shaw, Margaret T. “Narrative Surveillance and Social Control in Villette.” Studies in
English Literature (SEL) 34 (1994): 813-33.
Shuttleworth, Sally. “’The Surveillance of the Sleepless Eye’: The Constitution of
Neurosis in Villette.” In One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature. Ed. George
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Stewart, Garrett. “A Valediction For Bidding Mourning: Death and the Narratee in
Brontë’s Villette.” Death and Representation. Eds. Sarah Webster Goodwin and
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Surridge, Lisa. "Representing the 'Latent Vashti': Theatricality in Charlotte Brontë's
Villette." In Eleanor McNees, ed. (Originally pub'd in The Victorian Newsletter 87
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Tromly, Annette. The Cover of the Mask: The Autobiographers in Charlotte Brontë’s Fiction.
English Literary Studies 26. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, 1982.
Wein, Toni. "Gothic Desire in Brontë's Villette, SEL 39.4 (1999): 733-46. (available online
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Williams, Judith. Perception and Expression in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë. Wesport, Conn:
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