Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and the mentor-lover / Patricia Menon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menon, Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

Mentoring in literature.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Mentoring of authors.

England.

History.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Characters--Mentors.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Characters--Mentors.

Eliot, George.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Characters--Mentors.

Austen, Jane.

Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.

Romance fiction, English.

Man-woman relationships in literature.

Mentoring of authors--England.

Physical Description:

viii, 217 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This lucid and tightly-argued study uses the motif of the mentor-lover--embodying diverse permutations of sexual love, power and judgment--to explore, evaluate and compare the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontk and George Eliot as they contend with issues of sexuality, family, selfhood, freedom, conduct and gender. The figure also provides a means to probe their relationship to the reader as they become mentor-lovers through authorship, each eliciting a different form of love and electing a different style of instruction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-208) and index.

ISBN:

1403902593

OCLC:

51518565