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"Reader, perhaps you were never in Belgium?": Negotiating British Identity in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette

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Anne Longmuir
Journal: Nineteenth-Century Literature
Nineteenth-Century Literature (2009) 64 (2): 163–188.
https://doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2009.64.2.163
Published: 01 September 2009
...Anne Longmuir Critical investigations of the foreign settings of Charlotte Brontë's The Professor (1857) and Villette (1853) have tended to conceive Belgium (fictionalized as Labassecour in Villette ) as simply "not England." In contrast, this essay considers the historic and geographic specificity...
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