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Author Menon, Patricia.

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

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

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.8099287 M527a 2003    ---  Available
Description viii, 217 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-208) and index.
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 Bronte'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.
Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Mentoring in literature.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Mentoring of authors -- England -- History -- 19th century.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Characters -- Mentors.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters -- Mentors.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Characters -- Mentors.
Love stories, English -- History and criticism.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
ISBN 1403902593
9781403902597
Standard No. NLGGC 248266578
NLGGC 256456356
YDXCP 100336370

 
    
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