Villette

Charlotte Bronte (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

600 Seiten

2001 | New edition
Oxford Paperbacks (Verlag)
978-0-19-283964-0 (ISBN)

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Based in part on Charlotte Bronte's experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is an exploration of a woman's response to the challenge of a constricting social environment. It uses powerful imagery and comedy - ironic or exuberant - in the service of a sombre vision.

'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 Bronte'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 Bronte'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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.2001
Reihe/Serie	Oxford World's Classics
Co-Autor	Margaret Smith, Tim Dolin
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-19-283964-0 / 0192839640
ISBN-13	978-0-19-283964-0 / 9780192839640
Zustand	Neuware