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George Eliot and the British Empire

Author : Nancy Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139432696

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George Eliot and the British Empire by Nancy Henry Pdf

In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of both Eliot's fiction and her situation within Victorian culture. Henry argues that Eliot's decision to represent the empire only as it infiltrated the imaginations and domestic lives of her characters illuminates the nature of her Realism. The book also re-examines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.

Antipodean George Eliot

Author : Margaret Harris,Matthew Sussman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000829792

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Antipodean George Eliot by Margaret Harris,Matthew Sussman Pdf

In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career—from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such—Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot’s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.

Postcolonial George Eliot

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332127

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Postcolonial George Eliot by Oliver Lovesey Pdf

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

The Life of George Eliot

Author : Nancy Henry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118917671

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The Life of George Eliot by Nancy Henry Pdf

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. A fresh look at George Eliot's captivating life story Includes original new analysis of her writing Deploys the latest biographical research Combines literary criticism with biographical narrative to offer a rounded perspective

George Eliot in Context

Author : Margaret Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521764087

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George Eliot in Context by Margaret Harris Pdf

George Eliot's literary achievement is explored through essays on its historical, intellectual, political and social contexts.

George Eliot and Money

Author : Dermot Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107057210

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George Eliot and Money by Dermot Coleman Pdf

This book examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England.

George Eliot

Author : Jan Jedrzejewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134632565

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George Eliot by Jan Jedrzejewski Pdf

This comprehensive guide to one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period introduces the contexts and many interpretations of her work, from publication to the present. & nbsp.

The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

Author : George Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052166473X

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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot by George Levine Pdf

This volume of essays is comprehensively, scholarly and lucidly written, and at the same time offers original insights into the work of one of the most important Victorian novelists, and into her complex and often scandalous career.

George Eliot, European Novelist

Author : Dr John Rignall
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478836

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George Eliot, European Novelist by Dr John Rignall Pdf

Reading George Eliot as a European novelist among other European novelists, John Rignall explores her use of European travel, scenes and locations in her fiction and also places her novels in conversation with the work of other major European writers. Throughout the book, Rignall shows Eliot's engagement with the cultures of France and Germany, suggestively making the case that Eliot's novels belong to the tradition of the European novel that descends from Cervantes. Rignall develops the fundamental theme of Eliot's position as a European novelist in chapters that explore the significance of Eliot's first visit to Germany with G. H. Lewes, Eliot's ideas on the cultural differences between French and German writing, the incidental part travel plays in novels such as Daniel Deronda and Middlemarch, the role of European landscapes in her fiction, the dialogical relationship between Eliot and Balzac, comparisons between Middlemarch and Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and connections between the novels of Eliot, Gottfried Keller and Theodor Fontane. Daniel Deronda is examined both within the wider context of European Jewish life and as part of a tradition of French novels that harkens back to Balzac and anticipates Proust. Rignall's final chapter takes up Nietzsche's notorious criticism of Eliot in Twilight of the Idols, showing that Eliot, with her sceptical intelligence, insight into the essentially metaphorical nature of language, and grasp of modernity, has something in common with this philosophical iconoclast.

A Companion to George Eliot

Author : Amanda Anderson,Harry E. Shaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119072478

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A Companion to George Eliot by Amanda Anderson,Harry E. Shaw Pdf

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis ­exploring the relation between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era. A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholars Offers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot’s work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aesthetics Reflects the very latest developments in literary scholarship Traces the revealing links between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual ­concerns and those of today

George Eliot

Author : Barbara Hardy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826485168

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George Eliot by Barbara Hardy Pdf

Combining a biographical approach with close analysis of George Eliot's novels, Barbara Hardy introduces a new perspective on the life and works of one of Britain's greatest novelists

George Eliot's English Travels

Author : Kathleen McCormack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134238606

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George Eliot's English Travels by Kathleen McCormack Pdf

George Eliot’s more than fifty long and short journeys within England took her to dozens of sites scattered around the country. Revising the traditional notion that George Eliot drew her settings and characters only from the areas of her Warwickshire childhood, Kathleen McCormack demonstrates that English travel furnished the novelist with a wide variety of originals for the composite characters and settings she would so memorably create. McCormack traces the way in which George Eliot gathered material during her travels and also drafted long sections of the novels while away from her London home. She argues that by examining the choices George Eliot made in transforming, discarding or directly describing her English originals, we might take a significant step forward in the interpretation of her writings. Where other critics have tried to interpret characters as one-to-one renderings of living or dead models, for example, this study reveals more elaborate blendings of what George Eliot called the ‘widely sundered elements’ that made up her fiction. McCormack also reaches the fascinating conclusion that the novels were a form of coded communication between the author and people in her life, including other prominent Victorians such as Edward Burne-Jones, Robert Lytton and Barbara Bodichon. Presenting fresh biographical information and original insights into George Eliot’s writing strategies, George Eliot’s English Travels promises a decisive shift in our understanding of one of the most important figures in Victorian literature.

Before George Eliot

Author : Fionnuala Dillane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107035652

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Before George Eliot by Fionnuala Dillane Pdf

A revisionary study of the impact of Marian Evans's early periodical-press career on her later success as a novelist.

George Eliot, Poetess

Author : Wendy S. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317128625

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George Eliot, Poetess by Wendy S. Williams Pdf

The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her in-depth examination of Eliot’s poetry and her role as poetess. Williams argues that even more clearly than her fiction, Eliot’s poetry reveals the development of her belief in sympathy as a replacement for orthodox religious views. With knowledge of the Bible and a firm understanding of society’s expectations for female authorship, Eliot consciously participated in a tradition of women poets who relied on feminine piety and poetry to help refine society through compassion and fellow-feeling. Williams examines Eliot’s poetry in relationship to her gender and sexual politics and her shifting religious beliefs, showing that Eliot’s views on gender and religion informed her adoption of the poetess persona. By taking into account Eliot’s poetess treatment of community and motherhood, Williams suggests, readers come to view her not only as a writer of fiction, an intellectual, and a social commentator, but also as a woman who longed to nurture, participate in, and foster human relationships.

George Eliot: The Novels

Author : Mike Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230629516

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George Eliot: The Novels by Mike Edwards Pdf

This volume guides students through Eliot's most widely studied novels: The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch. The first part of the book is based on analysis of extracts grouped by themes including relationships, society and morality. At the end of each chapter, a 'Methods' section offers ideas for independent study. The second part describes Eliot's biographical, cultural and intellectual environment, and gives readings of representative critical writing.