Villette: 111 (New Casebooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333551389 ISBN 13: 9780333551387

Publisher: Palgrave, 1992

Synopsis

The Villette New Casebook collects a selection of the most important contributions to the study of Villette in the last twenty years from critics such as Kate Millett, Terry Eagleton, Mary Jacobus, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. It offers a range of theoretical perspectives, setting feminist, Marxist, poststructuralist and New Historicist readings against more traditional accounts of the novel.

About this title

Synopsis:

This book collects a selection of contributions to the study of "Villette" in the last 20 years from critics such as Kate Millett, Terry Eagleton, Mary Jacobus, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. It offers a range of theoretical perspectives, setting feminist, Marxist, post-structuralist and new historicist readings against more traditional accounts of the novel. It also provides an extended introduction, context notes for each essay and an annotated bibliography to help acquaint the reader both with the central critical issues raised by Bronte's text and with the important new developments in literary critical theory.

About the Author:

PAULINE NESTOR is Senior Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0333551389
• ISBN 13: 9780333551387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• Editor: Nestor Pauline