Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)
From Commonplace Book
General notes
- 15 Lucy's "overheated and discursive imagination" vs Paulina
- Paulina's monomania - Nelly says heathcliff is a monomaniac in Wuthering
- 17 "cup did not foam up" when Paulina and father reunited --CB dampening melodramatic expectations as in first chapter of shirley
- 20 Graham to Paulina: "I reckon on being able to get out of you a little of that precious commodity called amusement"
- a pre Marxian sense, as Freedgood 2006 would say
- 23 graham threatening to cut up the engraving Paulina likes to light candles
- 34 race and missionary English identity in Paulina's book
- 38 "We should be friendly to all, and worship none."
