‘A Still Ecstasy of Freedom and Enjoyment’: Walking the City in Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Villette</i>

Mathieson, Charlotte

doi:10.1080/13555502.2017.1336470

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“…Matheison contends that Lucy's mobility in the city is connected to her own body. Her body also "moves through, interacts, and feels the space around it" (Matheison 2017(Matheison , p. 2017. She states that Lucy's mobility in the city "provides a variety of sensory stimuli which are seen, tasted, touched, and above all, felt through Lucy's senses, which are heightened and stimulated by the city" (Ibid., p. 9).…”

Section: Posthuman Aspects Of Nomadic Narrativementioning

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Nomadic Narrative in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Kim

2019

Humanities

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Various critics have examined Charlotte Brontë’s Villette’s missing ending as a proof of Lucy Snowe’s unreliability in leaving the narrative purposefully ambiguous to escape her possible negative ending. I, however, interpret the ending as one of the ways in which she actively and positively refuses the concept of closure, and rather, creates, what I would call, a nomadic narrative. Nomadic narrative is term I coined based on the idea of Rosi Braidotti’s nomadic theory and Georg Lukács’s The Theory of the Novel to re-imagine Lucy’s narration and narrative, not as a concealment, but as an embracement of her nomadic subjectivity and acknowledgement that she has no true end. I further argue that nomadic narrative is a narrative that fractures and recreates itself through its gaps and rewritten portions, gaining its own sense of agency. Unlike narratives that only fixate on protagonists, nomadic narrative becomes an open and posthuman space that allows the incorporation of nonhuman subjects.

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Section: Posthuman Aspects Of Nomadic Narrativementioning

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Nomadic Narrative in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Kim

2019

Humanities

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Travel in Victorian Women’s Periodicals

Korte

2024

Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900

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Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

Robinson

2021

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Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.

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‘A Still Ecstasy of Freedom and Enjoyment’: Walking the City in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Cited by 18 publications

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Nomadic Narrative in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Nomadic Narrative in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Travel in Victorian Women’s Periodicals

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

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