Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349508181)

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 Brontë 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.

Author: P. Menon
ISBN-10: 1349508187
ISBN-13: 9781349508181
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 217
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d