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kat_stein 's review for:
The Professor
by Charlotte Brontë
This strikes me as an incredibly cynical depiction of what ultimately becomes a happy life. Frances was incontrovertibly the best part of this book. In her, you can see the seeds of Jane Eyre shining through.
The Professor seems to bear the marks of Charlotte’s hyper-consciousness about her own position as a woman writer; it participates in, while, at the same time, critiquing Victorian gender norms and, in particular, the aesthetic objectification of women. (Until Frances comes to make her mark on the novel (and our narrator) this manifests itself in what becomes a pretty uncomfortable and unsettled reading experience for the first two-thirds-or-so of the novel).
This was one of those books that I think I will come to like more over time. (And a book that I’m afraid doesn’t necessarily age into modernity as well as some of her others..)
The Professor seems to bear the marks of Charlotte’s hyper-consciousness about her own position as a woman writer; it participates in, while, at the same time, critiquing Victorian gender norms and, in particular, the aesthetic objectification of women. (Until Frances comes to make her mark on the novel (and our narrator) this manifests itself in what becomes a pretty uncomfortable and unsettled reading experience for the first two-thirds-or-so of the novel).
This was one of those books that I think I will come to like more over time. (And a book that I’m afraid doesn’t necessarily age into modernity as well as some of her others..)