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Join us to explore the radical strangeness of Charlotte Brontë’s last and most creative novel. Loneliness and belonging, conformity and fierce individualism, rationalism and mania vie for supremacy in this extraordinarily original work, foreshadowing by more than fifty years the innovations of literary modernism.
Villette’s perversely independent and dubiously reliable narrator Lucy Snowe stands as an enduring symbol of female self- authorship, in this fascinating tale of estrangement in a strange land.
Live online lecture and seminar with Corinna Russell, Fellow and Senior Tutor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Recommended edition: Charlotte Brontë, Villette (Penguin Classics, edited by Helen M. Cooper)
Optional reading: The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës, edited by Heather Glen.
Saturday 13 February 2027
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning or Lunchtime in the Americas
Lecture fee
£33.00 full price
£30.00 CAMcard holders
£30.00 students on a low income
Prices include VAT at 20%
Zoom link
We will send you a Zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the course begins. If the link does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session begins, so we can re-send.
Recordings
The lectures will be recorded so that participants can listen again for 48 hours after the live event. The seminars are not recorded.
If you cannot attend a course you have booked
Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a lecture or course. But if you contact us in advance, we might be able to transfer your booking to a different course.
Join us to explore the radical strangeness of Charlotte Brontë’s last and most creative novel. Loneliness and belonging, conformity and fierce individualism, rationalism and mania vie for supremacy in this extraordinarily original work, foreshadowing by more than fifty years the innovations of literary modernism.
Villette’s perversely independent and dubiously reliable narrator Lucy Snowe stands as an enduring symbol of female self- authorship, in this fascinating tale of estrangement in a strange land.
Live online lecture and seminar with Corinna Russell, Fellow and Senior Tutor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Recommended edition: Charlotte Brontë, Villette (Penguin Classics, edited by Helen M. Cooper)
Optional reading: The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës, edited by Heather Glen.
Saturday 13 February 2027
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning or Lunchtime in the Americas
Lecture fee
£33.00 full price
£30.00 CAMcard holders
£30.00 students on a low income
Prices include VAT at 20%
Zoom link
We will send you a Zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the course begins. If the link does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session begins, so we can re-send.
Recordings
The lectures will be recorded so that participants can listen again for 48 hours after the live event. The seminars are not recorded.
If you cannot attend a course you have booked
Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a lecture or course. But if you contact us in advance, we might be able to transfer your booking to a different course.