Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and the mentor-lover

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 Brontë'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.