The Professor (Wordsworth Classics)
The Professor (Wordsworth Classics)
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| The Professor is Charlotte Brontës 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 Brontë 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 Brontës death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. |
Language: English
Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (2001)
ISBN-10: 3734082706
ISBN-13: 9781853262081
Genre: Classics
Size: 13 cm x 19.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 317 grams
Condition: New
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Book Summary
| The Professor is Charlotte Brontës 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 Brontë 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 Brontës death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination. |
Language: English
Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (2001)
ISBN-10: 3734082706
ISBN-13: 9781853262081
Genre: Classics
Size: 13 cm x 19.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 317 grams
Condition: New
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