Pastors and Masters (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Indefinitely between 1900 and 1914
- Setting: An English public school and the home of several masters, with geographical identification purposely vague
- Principal Characters: Charles Merry, Mrs. Merry, Nicholas Herrick, Emily Herrick, Dickie Bumpas
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Satire
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Values, Intellectuals, Power, personal or social, Sexism, Gender roles, Schools or school life, 1920’s, Novelists, England or English people, World War I, Ethics, Human behavior, Theft, Colleges or universities, Learning or scholarship, Pretensions, Private schools, Church or churches, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: England
Although it was subtitled diffidently “A Study” when it appeared first, PASTORS AND MASTERS, Ivy Compton-Burnett’s first characteristic novel, reveals in small ways the attitudes, preoccupations, and techniques that she has modified and improved in the novels that have followed. It is as different from her first novel, DOLORES, as night is from day. There is no touch here of the sentimental admiration for self-sacrificing, or doing good, in any conventional sense of these moral words. Compton-Burnett records, largely by means of dialogue, the frequently enlightened,...
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