The Lifted Veil By George Eliot

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 39 pages
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Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513275406

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Latimer is cursed with psychic abilities that allow him to see the future, yet he’s unable to avoid the dark turn of his own life. What many consider a gift, he sees as a curse that has destroyed his ability to have normal relationships. Latimer can hear people’s deepest thoughts and has visions of their impending future. It’s a power he acquired at a young age following a brief illness. Latimer loathes his ability, as it has made it nearly impossible for him to make genuine connections. He unknowingly uncovers dark secrets that reveal the worst of humanity. Despite this foresight, Latimer’s desire to control his own narrative blinds him to an inevitable outcome. The Lifted Veil is a unique entry in Eliot’s literary catalogue. It was released the same year as her debut novel, Adam Bede, and is a stark departure from her usual themes. It highlights a different point-of-view and Eliot’s diverse storytelling ability. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Lifted Veil is both modern and readable.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798697237571

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The Lifted Veil Illustrated by George Eliot Pdf

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).

Author : Franco Marucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000519020

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George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’ by Franco Marucci Pdf

The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil’ amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in Eliot’s major canon. The premise of the present book is that George Eliot’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with variations, and that ‘The Lifted Veil’ functions as the linchpin of this oeuvre. A sequential approach to the story is authorized by the use of a mimetic enunciation that simulates a gradual ‘definition’ of events, places, and characters as they have appeared to the narrating ‘I’ in the course of time until the moment of the enunciation. Contextualizing ‘The Lifted Veil’ means placing it within Eliot’s oeuvre and against the background of Victorian mid-century fiction; in a further meaning, seeing it as intersecting various contemporary genres and subgenres, such as that of the European and American ‘literature of the veil’, that of the archetypal icon of the femme fatale, that of Wilkie Collins’s ‘dead secret’ novels. The most significant facet that critical literature on ‘The Lifted Veil’ has tended to overlook is however the encrypting of the experience of a failed religious conversion and the foreshadowing of the search for a spiritual and racial identity of Daniel Deronda, the hero of Eliot’s final novel.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798692997739

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The Lifted Veil Illustrated by George Eliot Pdf

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate.The unreliable narrator, Latimer, believes that he is cursed with an otherworldly ability to see into the future and the thoughts of other people. His unwanted "gift" seems to stem from a severe childhood illness he suffered while attending school in Geneva.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798568594000

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George Eliot - the Lifted Veil by George Eliot Pdf

Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous--gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural.The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing--of Eliot's sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to pass soon after this novella's publication). But it is easier still to read the story as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing early masterpiece of suspense.Includes a biography of the author.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798739541826

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The Lifted Veil Annotated by George Eliot Pdf

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).The unreliable narrator, Latimer, believes that he is cursed with an otherworldly ability to see into the future and the thoughts of other people. His unwanted "gift" seems to stem from a severe childhood illness he suffered while attending school in Geneva. Latimer is convinced of the existence of this power, and his two initial predictions do come true the way he has envisioned them: a peculiar "patch of rainbow light on the pavement" and a few words of dialogue appear to him exactly as expected. Latimer is revolted by much of what he discerns about others' motivations.Latimer might seem completely unlike most of George Eliot's other characters due to his supposed "psychic" abilities. Regardless, he reflects Eliot's continual interest in the frequent failure of human sympathy and communication.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798709939868

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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot by George Eliot Pdf

The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange... (more)

Author : U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520311282

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George Eliot's Early Novels by U. C. Knoepflmacher Pdf

This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal world she lived in, George Eliot also tried to reassure herself and her readers that their godless modern world still operated according to higher moral laws of justice and perfectibility. U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought. We see this popular novelist as she progressed artistically from the flawed "Amos Barton" in 1857 up to the balance she achieved in Silas Marner in 1861. And we discover her in the context of her literary antecedents and surrounding in a way that brings many new affiliations to light, particularly the connection of her novels to the writings of Milton, the Romantic poets, and her contemporaries Arnold and Carlyle. Professor Knoepflmacher thoroughly discusses each work in George Eliot's first stage, brining new attention to minor works like "The Lifted Veil" and Scenes of Clerical Life and fresh insights to such well known works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Author : Royce Mahawatte
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783160334

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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel by Royce Mahawatte Pdf

George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph to systematically explore George Eliot’s relationship to Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the author’s ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, this study compares passages of Eliot’s writing with sequences from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic works. Royce Mahawatte examines Eliot’s deployment of, for example, the incarcerated heroine in Middlemarch, doppelgangers in Romola and vampiric queerness in Daniel Deronda. In doing so he lifts Eliot from the boundaries of social realism and places her within a broader and richer Victorian literary scene than has been previously considered.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013410001

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The Works of George Eliot: Silas Marner, The lifted veil, Brother Jacob by George Eliot Pdf

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781772754001

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Brother Jacob by George Eliot Pdf

In Brother Jacob, George Eliot explores the relationship between the self-centered, ambitious David Faux and his slow-witted brother, Jacob. David Faux imagines that the greatest profession in the world must be that of the confectioner, but when reality fails to lives up to the promise, he decides to change course and seek his fortune overseas. To get there he'll have to bilk Jacob out of his rightful inheritance. Sayre Street Books offers the world's greatest literature in easy to navigate, beautifully designed digital editions.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798711391364

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The Lifted Veil by George Eliot Pdf

George Eliot's novella ''The Lifted Veil'' was first published in 1859. Eliot had written ''The Lifted Veil'' between the publication of her first novel Adam Bede, and that of her second novel, The Mill on the Floss. Eliot's publisher was hesitant to publish the story, because it was nothing like Adam Bede, for which she had gained critical acclaim. He was concerned that this tale of horror would be bad for her literary reputation, but reluctantly published it in a literary journal, albeit anonymously. ''The Lifted Veil'' concerns themes of fate, extrasensory perception, the mystery of life and life after death. Eliot's interest in these themes stemmed partly from her own struggles with religious faith, as she was an extremely devout Christian as a child and young adult who later renounced Christianity completely. She also felt that she herself, like Latimer, the main character in ''The Lifted Veil, '' had extrasensory powers of perception, which she referred to as ''double consciousness.''

Author : Hao Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230598607

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Memory and History in George Eliot by Hao Li Pdf

This book explores the interrelations between communal memory and the sense of history in George Eliot's novels by focusing on issues such as memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, memory and time, and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories. Hao Li offers a fresh critical reading informed by major nineteenth-century theories and argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of the dialects of memory and history, an understanding that both integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time.

Author : Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521335841

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George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science by Sally Shuttleworth Pdf

This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.

Author : Franco Marucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032183608

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George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil' by Franco Marucci Pdf

"The premise of the present book is that GE's oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with variations, and that 'The Lifted Veil' functions as the linchpin of this oeuvre"--