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Cover image for book Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover

Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover

By:P. Menon
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403902597
eText ISBN:9780230512047
Edition:0
Copyright:2003
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.