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Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette': forgeries of sex and self.
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19940922
Author:Ciolkowski, Laura E.
Charlotte Bronte questions Victorian conceptions of gender identity in her novel 'Villette.' It is an ambiguous novel that defies categorization and 19th and 20th century critics have attempted to limit it to their specific sociological agenda. Victorian readers were uncomfortable with the novel because the story of Lucy Snowe did not follow the expected paths of the novel of female development. Bronte manipulates the conventions of the bildungsroman to forge a new Victorian feminine identity.
FORGE: vb [ME, fr. OF, fr. L fabrica, fr. fabr-, faber] to form or bring into being esp. by an ...
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