Selected Criticism on Villette
Anderson, Amanda. The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the
Cultivation of Detachment.
Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. Chap. 1.
Auerbach, Nina. Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978.
Blake, Kathleen. Love and the Woman Question in
Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-postponement. Brighton: Harvester; Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1983.
Boone, Joseph. Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.
Boumelha, Penny. Charlotte Bront‘. Hempstead: Harvester, 1990.
Breen, Margaret Soenser. "Who are You, Lucy Snowe? Disoriented
Bildung in Villette." Dickens
Studies Annual 24 (1996): 241-57.
Carpenter, Mary Wilson. Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women,
Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003.
Chase, Karen. Eros & Psyche: The
Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and George
Eliot. New York: Methuen, 1984.
Clark-Beattie, Rosemary. ÒFables of Rebellion:
Anti-Catholicism and the Structure of Villette.Ó ELH
53 (1986): 821-47.
Crosby, Christina. ÒCharlotte Bront‘Õs Haunted
Text.Ó SEL 24 (1984): 701-15.
d'Albertis, Deirdre. "Make-Believes in Bayswater and Belgravia:
Bront‘, Linton, and the Victorian 'Flirt'." VIJ: Victorians Institute
Journal 24 (1996): 1-25.
Dames, Nicholas. "The Clinical Novel: Phrenology and Villette." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 29.3 (1996): 367-90.
Eagleton, Terry. Myths of Power: A Marxist Study
of the Brontes. New York: Barnes
& Noble, 1975. Villette
chap. rpt. in Nestor.
Fimland, Marit. "On the Margins of the Acceptable: Charlotte
Bront‘'s Villette." Literature
& Theology 10 (1996): 148-59.
Fletcher, LuAnn McCracken. "Manufactured Marvels, Heretic
Narratives, and the Process of Interpretation in Villette." SEL: Studies in English Literature,
1500-1900 32.4 (1992): 723-46.
Gates, Barbara Timm. Critical Essays on Charlotte
Bronte. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.
Gilbert, Sandra M and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman
in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1984. Villette chap. rpt. in Nestor.
Gilbert, Sandra M. "Life's Empty Pack: Notes Toward a Literary
Daughteronomy." Critical Inquiry 11.3 (1985): 355-84. xxwh
Glen, Heather. Charlotte Bront‘: The Imagination in
History. Oxford UP,
2002
Heilman, Robert B. "Charlotte Bront‘'s 'New'
Gothic." From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad. Ed. Robert C. Rathburn and Martin
Steinmann, Jr. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1958.
Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. "The 'Surveillance of DŽsirŽe': Freud,
Foucault, and Villette." Victorian
Literature and Culture 26 (1998):
421-40.
Hoeveler, Diane Long. "'A Draught of Sweet Poison': Food, Love,
and Wounds in Jane Eyre and Villette." Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism 7 (1999): 149-73.
Hughes, John. "The Affective World of Charlotte Bront‘'s Villette." SEL: Studies in English Literature,
1500-1900 40.4 (2000): 711-26.
Jacobus, Mary. ÒThe Buried Letter: Feminism and
Romanticism in Villette.Ó In Reading
Woman: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven, Yale UP, 1979. Rpt. in Nestor.
Johnson, Patricia E. "'this Heretic Narrative': The Strategy of
the Split Narrative in Charlotte Bront‘'s Villette." SEL: Studies in English Literature,
1500-1900 30 (1990): 617-31.
Judd, Catherine A. ÒMale Pseudonyms and
Female Authority in Victorian England.Ó Literature in the Marketplace: Ninteenth-century
British Reading and Publishing Practices. Ed. John O. Jordan and Robert L. Patten. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1995. 250-68.
Klaver, Claudia. "Homely Aesthetics: Villette's Canny Narrator," Genre 26 (1993): 409-29.
Lawrence, Karen. ÒThe Cypher: Disclosure and Reticence
in Villette.Ó Nineteenth-Century
Literature 42 (1988): 488ff. Rpt in
Gates.
Moglen, Helene. Charlotte Bronte: The Self
Conceived. New York: Norton, 1976. Villette chap. rpt. in Nestor.
Nestor, Pauline, ed. Villette: Charlotte Bronte. New York: St. MartinÕs, 1992.
Newton, Judith Lowder. Women, Power, and
Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1981. Chap. 3.
Preston, Elizabeth. "Relational Reconsiderations: Reliability,
Heterosexuality, and Narrative Authority in Villette." Style 30 (1996): 386-408.
Salotto, Eleanor. "Villette and the Perversions of Feminine Identity." Gender
Reconstructions: Pornography and Perversions in Literature and Culture. Ed. Cindy L. Carlson, Robert L. Mazzola, and Susan
M. Bernardo. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.
Shuttleworth, Sally. ÒÔThe Surveillance of a
Sleepless EyeÕ: The Constitution of Neurosis in Villette.Ó In One Culture: Essays in Science and
Literature. Ed. George Levine.
Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987). Rpt. in Nestor.
Silver, Brenda. ÒThe Reflecting Reader in Villette.Ó In The Voyage In: Fictions of Female
Development. Ed. Elizabeth Abel et
al. Hanover: UP of New England, 1983. Rpt in Nestor and Gates.
Stewart, Garrett. "A Valediction for Bidding [Sic] Mourning: Death
and the Narratee in Bronte's Villette." Death & Representation. Ed. Sarah Webster Goodwin and Elisabeth Bronfen.
(pp.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. 51-79.
Surridge, Lisa. "Representing the 'Latent Vashti': Theatricality
in Charlotte Bront‘'s Villette." Victorian Newsletter 87 (1995): 4-14.
Vrettos, Athena. "From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of
the Nerves in Villette and
Daniel Deronda." Victorian Studies 33 (1990): 551-79.
Wang, Lisa. "Unveiling the Hidden God of Charlotte Bront‘'s Villette." Literature & Theology 15 (2001): 342-57.
Warhol, Robyn R. "Double Gender, Double Genre in Jane Eyre and Villette." SEL: Studies in English Literature,
1500-1900 36.4 (1996): 857-75.
Wein, Toni. "Gothic Desire in Charlotte Bront‘'s Villette." SEL: Studies in English Literature,
1500-1900 39.4 (1999): 733-46. .
Weinstone, Ann. "The Queerness of Lucy Snowe." Nineteenth-Century
Contexts 18.4 (1995): 367-84.