num_pages: 225
description: 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.
language: English
title: Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover
titlecomplete: Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and the Mentor-Lover
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan