In the dead of night I suddenly awoke

Today, March 16, a ZOOM event organized by the Brussels Brontë Group:

Simon Marsden: ‘In the dead of night I suddenly awoke’: The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette

Talk (Zoom)

Wednesday 16 March 2022 at 20.00

Dr Simon Marsden of Liverpool University will talk about the Gothic aspects of Villette and its relationship to early-nineteenth-century Gothic literature more generally.

Simon Marsden is a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He has a particular interest in the Gothic in literature from the Romantic era to the present. He has written extensively on the work of the Brontë sisters, including a monograph, ‘Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination’, published by Bloomsbury in 2014.