The
VilletteNew Casebook collects a selection of the most important contributions to the study of
Villettein 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.
PAULINE NESTOR is Senior Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia.
PAULINE NESTOR is Senior Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia.
Introduction Essays by
Terry Eagleton
Myths of Power Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Madwoman in the Attic Mary Jacobus
Reading Woman Kate Millett
Sexual Politics Helene Moglen
Charlotte Bronte, The Self-Conceived Nancy Rabinowitz
Faithful Narrator Sally Shuttleworth
The Surveillance of a Sleepless Eye Brenda Silver
The Reflecting Reader in Villette Tony Tanner
Introduction to Penguin edition of Villette.