Article: Haunted Childhood in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.

Ghosts are a phenomenon necessarily borne out of uncertainty: Do they exist? Whence do they come? In contrast, children are relatively easy to understand. We certainly know where they come from and their noise, coupled with the fact that they are often under one's feet, testifies to their empirical existence. Despite the fact, however, that we have all been children, what they have in common with ghosts is that we insist on treating them as `other': foreign, different, to some extent unknowable. James R. Kincaid, in his controversial but influential study, Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture, addresses the problematic issue of setting fully defined limits ...

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