From Pasha to Cleopatra and Vashti: the oriental other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

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From Pasha to Cleopatra and Vashti: the oriental other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Critics have argued that Jane’s engagement with the Orient in Jane Eyre (1847) is grounded in the vocabulary of her role as liberator and the discourse of female slavery and male domination as represented by the use of the harem metaphor in the text. Yet little is said about how this same metaphor e...

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Main Author:	Mohd Ramli, Aimillia
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Maney Publishing 2010
Subjects:	PR English literature
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/2831/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/2831/1/from_pasha_to_cleopatra_and_vashti.pdf

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