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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The George Eliot, George Henry Lewes Newsletter
Author: The George Eliot, George Henry Lewes Newsletter
Author: George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies
Author: George Eliot
Author: K. CollinsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137087668
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Spanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies. Altogether they provide a fresh, vivid, and sometimes startling portrait of a controversial genius.
George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies
Author: The Journals of George Eliot
Author: George EliotPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794572
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.
George Eliot
Author: Jean ArnoldPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030106268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on Eliot’s vast interests and knowledge, informed by the nineteenth-century British culture in which she lived. Examining Eliot’s wide-ranging engagement with Victorian historical research, periodicals, poetry, mythology, natural history, realism, the body, gender relations, and animal studies, these essays construct an exciting new interdisciplinary agenda for future Eliot studies.
George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies
Author: Redefining the Modern
Author: Joseph WiesenfarthPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640135
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Redefining the Modern spans nearly a century and a half in a series of essays that capture the crucial shifts and transformations marking the change from the Victorian to the Modern period. At the center of the collection is the understanding that literature responds to, as well as initiates, social, intellectual, and sometimes political change. It also recognizes that historical categories, like genres, need to be realigned. The diverse material ranges from Jane Austen's laughter to female detectives and black fiction. It coheres, however, through its focus on the interaction of language and society and the way language and culture maintain a persistent and dynamic exchange. Rather than deny links between one period and another, this collection argues for continuity and development, emphasizing revision and renewal rather than rejection and refusal. No longer do critics accept fierce divides or unbridgeable paths between the work of the Victorians and moderns. Recent approaches to the period, reflecting gender, cultural studies, and new historicism, provide fresh means of assessment. Central to this reconception is the recognition that if the Victorians invented us, we, in turn, h
George Henry Lewes
Author: Hock Guan TjoaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674348745
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Lewes--consort of George Eliot, biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic--was also a scientist and philosopher. Tjoa not only reconstructs Lewes' theory of criticism and his social and political opinions but also evaluates his contributions to Darwinian science both as original thinker and as popularizer.