| The Professor Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brontė, Charlotte (Author), Minogue, Sally (Introduction by), Minogue, Sally (Notes by) |
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ISBN: 1853262080 ISBN-13: 9781853262081 Publisher: Wordsworth Editions OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1130 |
| Series: Wordsworth Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.03" W x 7.82" (0.32 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor is Charlotte Bront s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Bront is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire. William's first person narration reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls' school where he teaches, played out in the school's 'secret garden'. Balanced against this is his more temperate relationship with one of his pupils, Frances Henri, in which mastery and submission interplay. The Professor was published only after Charlotte Bront s death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. |