Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and the mentor-lover /
"The figure of the mentor-lover raises difficult but inescapable questions about the nature of sexual love and its links to the attributes of the mentor - power, judgement and moral authority. As such it provides a means to evaluate the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, e...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue : the mentor-lover in the eighteenth century : novel, conduct book and archetype
- 1. "Saturated with the platonic idea"? Judgment and passion in Northanger Abbey, Pride and prejudice and Emma
- 2. Sense and sensibility and Mansfield Park : "At once both tragedy and comedy"
- 3. "Slave of a fixed and dominant idea" : Charlotte Brontë's early writing : preliminaries or precursors?
- 4. "Should we try to counteract this influence?" : Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette
- 5. George Eliot and "the clerical sex" : from Scenes of clerical life to Middlemarch
- 6. "Worth nine-tenths of the sermons"? The author as mentor-lover in Daniel Deronda
- Epilogue : the author, the reader and the "imaged solution"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.