Haunted childhood in Charlotte Bronte's Villette
(2002)
Journal Article
Armitt, L. (2002). Haunted childhood in Charlotte Bronte's Villette. https://doi.org/10.2307/3509059
In Villette, the obvious fakeness of the phantom robs it of uncanny status, reducing it to a form of narrative decoy which deflects attention away from what are consistently described as unheimlich in the novel: children and childhood. Though Lucy Sn... Read More about Haunted childhood in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.