George Eliot And The Idea Of Community
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George Eliot and Community
Author | : Suzanne Graver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Perspectives on Self and Community in George Eliot
Author | : Patricia Gately |
Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780773485419 |
This text contains eight essays on the theme of perspective and perception in several of George Eliot's novels.
The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
Author | : George Levine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2001-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521664738 |
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 U.S.
Author | : Monika Mueller |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780838640555 |
George Eliot U.S. demonstrates the complex and reciprocal relationship between George Eliot's fiction and the writings of her major American contemporaries, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book also traces Eliot's influence on subsequent American fiction. The introductory section raises methodological questions concerning influence and intertextuality and addresses the mutual reception of European and American social and cultural discourses in order to illuminate culturally motivated divergences and convergences in the authors' presentation of gender, race, and national and ethnic alterity. The book's main body discusses Eliot's and the American writers' depiction of domestic social discourses on gender, religion, and community, and analyzes their depiction of the cultural alterity of Italy. It also focuses on Eliot's and Stowe's different attitudes toward race (and nation building), and discusses the parallels between the kabbalistic passages of Daniel Deronda and American transcendentalist thought. and social life in works by later writers such as Cynthia Ozick and John Irving. Monika Mueller teaches American and English literature at the University of Cologne.
George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation
Author | : Alan L. Mintz |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674348738 |
Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age. In the idea of vocation she found a way to explore how far it is possible to be ambitious both for oneself and for a large cause, and a way to probe the contradictions between ambitious, self-defining work and the older institutions; of family, community, and religion. The book is solidly grounded in cultural and historical reality. Although Mintz concentrate on George Eliot and especially Middlemarch, he also examines the conceptions of self and work in Victorian biographies and autobiographies and the emergence in late-nineteenth-century fiction of the idea of the vocation of art.
George Eliot's Religious Imagination
Author | : Marilyn Orr |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810135906 |
George Eliot's Religious Imagination addresses the much-discussed question of Eliot’s relation to Christianity in the wake of the sociocultural revolution triggered by the spread of theories of evolution. The standard view is that the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner “lost her faith” at this time of religious crisis. Orr argues for a more nuanced understanding of the continuity of Eliot’s work, as one not shattered by science, but shaped by its influence. Orr’s wide-ranging and fascinating analysis situates George Eliot in the fertile intellectual landscape of the nineteenth century, among thinkers as diverse as Ludwig Feuerbach, David Strauss, and Søren Kierkegaard. She also argues for a connection between George Eliot and the twentieth-century evolutionary Christian thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Her analysis draws on the work of contemporary philosopher Richard Kearney as well as writers on mysticism, particularly Karl Rahner. The book takes an original look at questions many believe settled, encouraging readers to revisit George Eliot’s work. Orr illuminates the creative tension that still exists between science and religion, a tension made fruitful through the exercise of the imagination. Through close readings of Eliot's writings, Orr demonstrates how deeply the novelist's religious imagination continued to operate in her fiction and poetry.
George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance
Author | : Bernard Semmel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1994-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195358740 |
In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores Eliot's imaginative use of the theme of inheritance, as a metaphor for her political thinking. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and other writings, and a study of the intellectual currents of the time, Semmel demonstrates how and why Eliot's views on inheritance provided central ideas for her fiction. Semmel uncovers Eliot's intent when she wrote of the obligations of inheritance both in the common meaning of the term, as in the transfer of goods and property from parents to children, and in the more metaphoric sense of the inheritance of both the benefits and burdens of the historical past, particularly those of the nation's culture and traditions. He believes Eliot's novels dwelt so insistently on the idea of inheritance in good part because she viewed herself as intellectually "disinherited," writing as she did at a time when much of England was being transformed from a traditional community to an alienating modern society, and when, moreover, she suffered from a painful estrangement from her family. In this thought-provoking study, Semmel dissects the politics of Eliot's novels, including Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Romola Felix Holt, and Adam Bede, and convincingly displays the relationship between Eliot's variations on the theme of inheritance and her acceptance of Britain's traditional policies of compromise and reform. All those interested in Victorian literature, history, and political thought will appreciate Semmel's George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance.
The Essays of "George Eliot"
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Essays of "George Eliot"" (Complete) by George Eliot. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.