From Pasha to Cleopatra and Vashti: the oriental other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
Critics have argued that Jane’s engagement with the Orient in Jane Eyre (1847) is grounded in the vocabulary of her role as liberator and the discourse of female slavery and male domination as represented by the use of the harem metaphor in the text. Yet little is said about how this same metaphor e...
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Maney Publishing
2010
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