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Author | : Nancy Henry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2002-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Nancy Henry |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1118917677 |
Download The Life of George Eliot Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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
Author | : Oliver Lovesey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2017-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137332123 |
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This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.
Author | : Ronald Hyam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521115221 |
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A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.
Author | : Bernard Semmel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1994-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195358740 |
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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.
Author | : Margaret Harris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2013-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521764084 |
Download George Eliot in Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
George Eliot's literary achievement is explored through essays on its historical, intellectual, political and social contexts.
Author | : Tim Dolin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005-01-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192840479 |
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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.
Author | : Margaret Harris |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022-12-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000829790 |
Download Antipodean George Eliot Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career—from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such—Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot’s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.
Author | : Dermot Coleman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107057213 |
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This book examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England.
Author | : K.M. Newton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-12-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1849664994 |
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George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian context and intellectual framework. This book examines the ways in which her work anticipates significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and indeed twenty first century in regard to both art and philosophy. This new book presents a series of linked essays exploring Eliot's credentials as a radical thinker. Opening with her relationship to the Romantic tradition, Newton goes on to discuss her reading of Darwinism, her radical critique of Victorian values and her affiliation with the modernists. The final essays discuss her work in relation to Derridean themes and to Bernard Williams' concept of moral luck. What emerges is a very different Eliot from the conservative figure portrayed in much critical literature.