Villette

Klappentext 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 comedy, ironic or exuberant, in the service of an ultimately sombre vision, make Villette especially appealing to the modern reader. Zusammenfassung A new edition of this classic from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is sourced from the earliest printings of Brontë's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Bront^D"e, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
• Assisted by: Herbert Rosengarten (Editor), Margaret Smith (Editor), Tim Dolin (Introduction), Dolin Tim (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2008
• EAN: 9780199536658
• ISBN: 978-0-19-953665-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 25 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general