Ayn Rand and Brontë studiesHistorical and Scientific StudiesThomas Hardy Literature Studies
Zhiying Zhang
2026.5.28EXPLICATOR
Abstract
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853) is a novel profoundly concerned with the act of looking and being looked at. Vision in the novel is never neutral; rather, it is bound up with power, desire, mora...
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ZHANG, Zhiying. Seeing cleopatra: Odalisque fantasy, rubensian flesh, and female resistance in charlotte brontë’s villette. EXPLICATOR, 2026: 1–10.