Keyword

Villette

Description: A novel by Charlotte Brontë, studied in literary criticism for its themes, characters, and narrative form.

Primary topic: Ayn Rand and Brontë studies (52%)

Related topic: Ayn Rand and Brontë studies (52%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/villette

Between women: friendship, desire, and marriage in Victorian England

2007 · Choice Reviews Online · 395

The powers of distance: cosmopolitanism and the cultivation of detachment

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 371

Women Writing and Writing about Women

2012 · Routledge eBooks · 183

The ends of history: Victorians and "the woman question"

1991 · Choice Reviews Online · 131

Feminist Criticism and Social Change: Sex, Class and Race in Literature and Culture

1986 · Judith Newton, Deborah Rosenfelt · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 125

From Dickens to Dracula

2005 · Gail Turley Houston · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 81

The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

2012 · Caroline Franklin · 73

Women, Power and Subversion : Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860

1981 · Judith Newton · 72

Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home

2000 · Elisabeth Jay, Monica F. Cohen · The Modern Language Review · 56

Confessional Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture

1997 · Susan David Bernstein · 54

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

2007 · Oliver Tearle, Ivan Kreilkamp · The Modern Language Review · 53

The Face in the Mirror: Villette and the Conventions of Autobiography

1979 · Janice Carlisle · ELH · 51

The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill

2009 · Miriam Bailin · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · 48

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From Dickens to Dracula: gothic, economics, and Victorian fiction

2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 44

Charlotte Brontë and Sexuality

1984 · John Maynard · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 42

Villette

2008 · Charlotte Brontë, Tim Dolin · Oxford University Press eBooks · 41

The Clinical Novel: Phrenology and "Villette"

1996 · Nicholas Dames · NOVEL A Forum on Fiction · 41

Villette

1853 · Charlotte Brontë · Oxford University Press eBooks · 39

Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel

1997 · Tim Dolin · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 36

The Cypher: Disclosure and Reticence in Villette

1988 · Karen Lawrence · Nineteenth-Century Literature · 36

Fair exotics: xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850

2002 · Choice Reviews Online · 34

Charlotte Bronte: the imagination in history

2003 · Choice Reviews Online · 33

Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel

2013 · Adrian Wisnicki · Routledge eBooks · 31

Charlotte Bronte: a passionate life

1995 · Choice Reviews Online · 30

God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Brontë, and Eliot

1994 · Kathryn Bond Stockton · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 29

Works count: 1,354

Citation count: 3,386