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Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-08 |
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In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women's fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, do great disservice for the overall appreciation of women's intellectual capacities. Eliot divides 'silly novels by lady novelists' into several distinct categories: the mind-and-millinery species, the oracular type and the white-neck-cloth variety. She writes with characteristic sharp wit and insightful intellect in this scathing (but not unfeeling) feminist critique of 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists'. This edition includes illustrations from the books critiqued by Eliot, along with annotations. George Eliot (Marian/Mary Ann Evans) was born in Warwickshire England in 1819. She went on to become one of England's most astute nineteenth century writers. Eliot is the author of celebrated novels including Adam Bede (1859), Middlemarch (1871-1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). She also published non-fiction essays, poems and short stories, and was a skilled translator of German-language philosophy, including works by Strauss, Feuerbach and Spinoza. Eliot's writing is characterised by gritty realism entwined with deep empathy and keen insight into human life and ethics. Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher and audiobook producer from Melbourne, Australia.
Author | : George Eliot |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Download The Essays of "George Eliot." Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : A. S. Byatt |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2005-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141958723 |
Download Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : George Eliot (Marian Evans) |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12 |
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ISBN | : 9781953007834 |
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Author | : George GEORGE ELIOT |
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2020-04-08 |
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Author | : Mary Ann Evans |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Download The essays of 'George Eliot' complete, collected and arranged, with an intr. by N. Sheppard Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2022-09-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520348273 |
Download Quarry for Middlemarch Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Author | : Susan Rowland Tush |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
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Download George Eliot and the Conventions of Popular Women's Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work uses George Eliot's essay, «Silly Novels by Lady Novelists» as a guide for examining Eliot's response to the literary conventions prevalent in Victorian women's fiction. In her essay, Eliot refers to six popular novels, which are now extremly rare. This work is the first to examine these novels and the role that their conventions play in Eliot's own fiction. Accordingly, Adam Bede is seen within the context of Evangelical fiction. The mill on the Floss is viewed as a «oracular» novel, and Middlemarch is compared to «the mind and millinery» novels. Eliot's essay and «silly» novels she discussed thus provide a new way of measuring her fiction by her own yardstick.
Author | : George Eliot |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2010-08-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141956429 |
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Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the culture, and the varying qualities of literary translations. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Author | : Rohan Maitzen |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2009-06-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 155111769X |
Download The Victorian Art of Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form, such as characterization, plot construction, and narration; and questions about the morality of fiction. The editor discusses where Victorian writing on the novel has been placed in accounts of the history of criticism and then suggests some reasons for reconsidering this conventional evaluation. Among the featured essayists and critics are John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, George Henry Lewes, Leslie Stephen, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Louis Stevenson; the classic essays include George Eliot’s “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” and Henry James’s “The Art of Fiction.”