The Journals of George Eliot

The Journals of George Eliot

Author: George Eliot

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-09-28

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780521794572

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The great Victorian novelist's complete surviving journals - first publication of new George Eliot text.


George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes

Author: Hock Guan Tjoa

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780674348745

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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.


George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century

George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century

Author: K. M. Newton

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-13

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 3319919261

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George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of Eliot. Tracing Eliot’s literary reception from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, K. M. Newton frames Eliot as an unorthodox radical and considers the philosophical, ethical, political, and artistic subtleties permeating her writings. Drawing from close readings of her novels, essays, and letters, Newton offers a new critical perspective on George Eliot and reveals her enduring relevance in the twenty-first century.


The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans

The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans

Author: Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 150172102X

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Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.


The Life of George Eliot

The Life of George Eliot

Author: Nancy Henry

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1118917677

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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

George Eliot

Author: Jean Arnold

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 3030106268

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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 in Society

George Eliot in Society

Author: Kathleen McCormack

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780814212110

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Sundays at the Priory, the salons that George Eliot and George Henry Lewes conducted throughout the winter seasons during their later years in the 1870s, have generally earned descriptions as at once scandalous and dull, with few women in attendance, and guests approaching the Sibyl one by one to express their almost pious devotion. But both the guest lists of the salons--which include significant numbers of women, a substantial gay and lesbian contingent, and a group of singers who performed repeatedly--together with the couple's frequent travels to European spas, where they encountered many of the guests likely to visit the Priory, revise the conclusion that George Eliot lived her entire life as an ostracized recluse. Instead, newly mined sources reveal George Eliot as a member of a large and elite, if slightly Bohemian, international social circle in which she moved as a literary celebrity and through which she stimulated her creative imagination as she composed her later poetry and fiction. George Eliot in Society: Travels Abroad and Sundays at the Priory by Kathleen McCormack draws attention to the survival of the literary/musical/artistic salon in the Victorian era, at a time in which social interactions coexisted with rising tensions that would soon obliterate the European spa/salon culture in which the Leweses participated, both as they traveled abroad and at Sundays at the Priory.


George Eliot and the British Empire

George Eliot and the British Empire

Author: Nancy Henry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-01-17

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1139432699

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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.