Spatial physiognomy of the sickroom in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Villette.

• Main Author: Wong, Vincent.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52133
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Drawing on writers such as Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Elaine Showalter, Miriam Bailin and also Michel Foucault, this thesis will examine representations of illness, and “madness” constructed as a form of illness, in Jane Eyre and Villette by delineating the different types of physical spaces...