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Subject(s)

• Eliot, George 1819-1880—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Women and literature—England—History—19th century [Browse]
• Didactic fiction, English—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press). Authors in context [More in this series]
• Oxford world's classics. Authors in context

Summary note

• "In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the variety of ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers, tourists, cinema-goers, and television viewers."
• "The book includes a chronology of Eliot's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-[271]) and index.
• "Film and television adaptations of Eliot's fiction": p. [272]-273.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• A chronology of George Eliot
• The insurgent and the sibyl : the life of George Eliot
• The fabric of society
• Literary and cultural contexts
• Eliot and social and political issues
• Eliot and the woman question
• Eliot and religion
• Eliot and Victorian science
• Recontextualizing George Eliot.

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ISBN

0192840479 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2005298046

OCLC

56963662

RCP

H - S

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