The Professor (Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontės) - Hardcover

Brontė, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198126948 ISBN 13: 9780198126942

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

Synopsis

The Clarendon Edition of The Professor marks the first time this novel--or in fact any major novel by Charlotte Brontė--has appeared in an edition based directly on the author's manuscript. The editors provide a substantial introduction, giving a full account of the novel's composition, and include full indexes to biblical and literary allusions.

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From the Inside Flap:

The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontė completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontė's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Brontė's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine. The Professor endures today as both a harbinger of Brontė's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.
    "The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write," proclaimed Brontė. "It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre."
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About the Author:

Celebrated British authoress, Charlotte Bronte is best-known for her novels which have achieved the status of world-famous classics. Marked by individuality, her writing style is outstanding for its exquisite sensibility, intense passion and zealous honesty.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0198126948
• ISBN 13: 9780198126942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Smith Margaret, Rosengarten Herbert