BRONTE: THE PROFESSOR CENB C (Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontės) - Hardcover

JACK

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198126948 ISBN 13: 9780198126942

Publisher: Academic, 1987

Synopsis

For the first time a major novel by Charlotte Brontė appears in an edition based directly on the author's manuscript. Like her other mature work, The Professor owes much to her relationship with M. Heger, her Brussels schoolmaster. The first of her full-length novels, it is of special interest since it was written comparatively soon after her experiences in Brussels in the early 1840s, but not published until 1857, after her death. A full introduction gives an account of its composition, analyses the manuscript, and describes the circumstances of its eventual publication, in an inaccurate form, under the editorship of A. B. Nicholls.

Appendices include an unused `Preface' - one of Charlotte Brontė's attempts to `recast' the novel - and a list of substantive variants between the manuscript and the first edition. Her last fragmentary novel, `Emma', begun after Villette, is now transcribed directly from the author's rough draft, instead of from the polished and revised text produced by Nicholls, George Smith, and Thackeray for the Cornhill Magazine in 1860.

The volume contains full indexes to Biblical and literary allusions in Charlotte Brontė's four major novels, thus giving a fascinating guide to the nature and extent of her reading. The editors also make use of continuing research by providing a list of additions and corrections to all previous volumes in the Clarendon Brontė series.

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Review:

`It is very good to have this poor relation among Charlotte's novels ... properly edited at last' Michael Slater, The English Association

'excellent Clarendon edition' Patricia Thomson, University of Sussex. Review of English Studies

Synopsis:

A major novel by Charlotte Bronte in an edition based directly on the author's manuscript. Like her other mature work, "The Professor" owes much to her relationship with M. Heger, her Brussels schoolmaster. The first of her full-length novels, it is of special interest since it was written comparatively soon after her experiences in Brussels in the early 1840s, but not published until 1857, after her death. A full introduction gives an account of its composition, analyses the manuscript, and describes the circumstances of its eventual publication, in an inaccurate form, under the editorship of A.B. Nicholls. Appendices include an unused "Preface" - one of Charlotte Bronte's attempts to "recast" the novel - and a list of substantive variants between the manuscript and the first edition. Her last fragmentary novel, "Emma", begun afte "Villette", is now transcribed directly from the author's rough draft, instead of from the polished and revised text produced by Nicholls, George Smith, and Thackeray for the Cornhill Magazine in 1860.

The volume contains full indexes to biblical and literary allusions in Charlotte Bronte's four major novels, thus giving a guide to the nature and extent of her reading. The editors also make use of continuing research by providing a list of additions and corrections to all previous volumes in the Clarendon Bronte series. Students of the 19th-century novel, and of women writers and Bronte specialists should be interested in this edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0198126948
• ISBN 13: 9780198126942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 390