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Villette, the final novel of Charlotte Brontë is unique in Victorian fiction in featuring a failed marriage plot, where the heroine remains unmarried at the end. This thesis uses the theory of scholars such as Judith Butler and Nancy Armstrong to investigate the stakes of Villette’s failed marriage plot and examine the possibilities of a queered marriage plot. An analysis of the logic of the novel’s ... read moremarriage plot reveals how Brontë mimics the conventions of the marriage plot while also exposing its contrived nature. The generic indeterminacy of Villette, as a realist novel that incorporates elements of the Gothic, highlights the queerness of a realist marriage plot infused with the Gothic and the surreal. And Villette’s controversial conclusion implicates its narrator and protagonist in a non-reproductive and therefore queer future.read less
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