Victorian age
Villette, published 1853 after an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the
fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwilligly pulled into both adventure and
romance, acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her
protagonist ise suffering internally.
The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, rejected by many publishing houses, published 1857, story of a
young man(William Crimsworth), describes his maturation, his loves, and his eventual career as a Professor
at an all-girl's school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels where se studied
as a language student in 1842.
· What kind of genres do her works belong to?
Novels( and poetry.)
· What is the Bildungsroman?
A novel that tells the story of a child's maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that lead to
his or her maturity.
· What is a social novel?
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