Titre : | Ireland in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (2014) |
Auteurs : | Julie DONOVAN, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 44 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2014) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 213-233 |
Langues: | Anglais |
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Résumé : | Ireland has been examined as a focus in Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre, but not in a sustained discussion about how Ireland pertains to Brontë’s 1853 novel, "Villette". This essay seeks to address an oversight in the current scholarship by analyzing how Ireland insinuates itself into the more obvious continental setting of Brontë’s text, taking as a starting point a significant encounter between Brontë’s heroine, Lucy Snowe, and an Irishwoman named Mrs Sweeny. As Lucy vanquishes Mrs Sweeny in order to rise, Brontë sets in train a number of oblique narratives demonstrating how Ireland remains contiguous to Villette's preoccupation with the probing of national allegiances. |
Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
Lieu de publication : | Edimbourg |
Fonds : | Médiathèque |