Immaterial Correspondence: Letters, Bodies, and Desire in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
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This article argues that Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) rewrites a prevalent narrative convention, encoded in eighteenth-century literary culture, of using letters as substitutes for correspondents’ bodies. The novel features a character/narrator who deliberately represses the material aspects of correspondence, staging a gradual disembodiment of epistolary exchange. Lucy Snowe, I propose, uses the epistolary medium to circumvent prescriptive accounts of sexual difference and hierarchy. Letters become a crucial instrument in Lucy’s endeavour to reconcile her romantic, intellectual, and professional ambitions, as they allow her to erase her body – and its culturally encoded meanings – from the process of communication.
| Iaith wreiddiol | Saesneg |
|---|---|
| Tudalennau (o-i) | 136-146 |
| Cyfnodolyn | Brontë Studies |
| Cyfrol | 43 |
| Rhif y cyfnodolyn | 2 |
| Dyddiad ar-lein cynnar | 6 Maw 2018 |
| Statws | Cyhoeddwyd - Maw 2018 |
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