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.
