Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings

Author: A. S. Byatt

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-04-07

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 0141958723

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The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.

Essays of George Eliot
Essays of George Eliot

Author: Thomas Pinney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-25

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1317294092

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This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot’s essays written between 1846 and 1868. Through these essays, Pinney has managed to convey her range of subject-matters and variety of style. This title, with an introduction and footnotes written by the editor, will be of particular interest to students of literature.