Charlotte Brontë’s fictional epistles

EARNSHAW, Steve (2015). Charlotte Brontë’s fictional epistles. Brontë Studies, 40 (3), 201-214.

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Abstract

Charlotte Brontë’s Villette is notable for its engagement with epistolarity. In particular, its ending finally resolves issues that the author has wrestled with throughout her fictional work and in some real-world correspondence. By bringing the reader’s attention to the ontology of letters, Villette is able to foreground the primacy of writing, and to proffer it as a potential bridge between souls, as well as showing how the physical world is transcended by means of this ontology.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Humanities Research Centre
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1179/1474893215Z.000000000149
Page Range:	201-214
Depositing User:	Steve Earnshaw
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2016 13:34
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 04:56
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/11846

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