Titlebook: Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover; Patricia Menon Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limi

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,“Slave of a Fixed and Dominant Idea”: Charlotte Brontë’s Early Writings — Preliminaries or Precursos, the first and last she wrote for publication, the lover—teacher relationship is central, in another the heroine marries her tutor at the conclusion of the work, and in yet another the governess-heroine narrowly escapes marriage to her cousin-instructor but marries her “Master”. Variations on the

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,“Should We Try to Counteract This Influence? ” , and ,,precluded a change in her later works. Certainly her first published novel demonstrated a gratifying improvement in her ability to please an audience. Single-minded in every sense, ., as generations of readers have recognized, makes compelling reading. One reaction, all the more striking for the ini

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,George Eliot and “The Clerical Sex”: From , to ,,ters show, was also discovering for herself both the attractions and dangers of a mentor of the opposite sex. While Charlotte agonized, Mary Ann went to stay and study with Dr R. H. Brabant, at that time in his early sixties, in the place of his newly married daughter. Such a filial relationship was

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,“Worth Nine-Tenths of the Sermons”? The Author as Mentor-Lover in ,,he lover. Because she cared deeply about the process of moral growth, the mentor was a naturally appealing figure and could be made to dovetail with another role that attracted her, that of the submissive, even childlike, devotee, but, though love might in general be considered a force for good, the

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,Epilogue: The Author, the Reader and the “imaged solution”,nd nineteenth centuries to explore the relations between love, power, judgment and moral authority. As a consequence, the novels of Austen, Brontë and Eliot blend the philosophical, moral and erotic with instruction in varying proportions. They also offer differing assessments of the relationship, d

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Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover