Villette (Charlotte Brontë, 1853)

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."
• 39 "the nightmare"; metaphorizing her depression (?) as falling overboard
  • 41 mourning dress - gradual revelation