Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover

By Patricia Menon

Book Overview

This lucid and tightly-argued study uses the motif of the mentor-lover - embodying diverse permutations of sexual love, power and judgement - to explore, evaluate and compare the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403902593
• ISBN13: 9781403902597
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 9.0"