Through Belgian Eyes by Helen Macewan
That makes Villette, considered by many to be Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece, of particular interest as a portrait of the Belgian capital a decade after the country gained independence in 1830, and just before modernisation and expansion transformed the city out of all recognition from the villette (small town) that Charlotte knew.
While we may know plenty about what Charlotte Bronte made of Brussels and its people, what about the other way round? What did Brussels, and indeed Belgium as a whole, make of the shy young Englishwoman who, having been rejected by one of their countrymen, unleashed a stream of invective against their country? This is the question that long-time resident and Bronte scholar Helen MacEwan attempts to answer in this fascinating and important book [She] skilfully decentres the Bronte myth and re-reads it, this time through Belgian eyesKathryn Hughes, Times Literary Supplement, 18 May 2018
Helen MacEwan studied modern languages at Oxford University. A translator and former teacher, she is the author of The Brontes in Brussels, a guide to Charlotte and Emily Bronte's time at the Pensionnat Heger, and Down the Belliard Steps: Discovering the Brontes in Brussels. And most recently, Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes (Adds significantly to Bronte studies and literary biography: Claire Harman, biographer and critic, author of Charlotte Bronte: A Life).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845199104 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845199103 |
| Title | Through Belgian Eyes |
| Author | Helen Macewan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Year published | 2017-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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