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Author: Philip Maurice Davis Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199577374 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 445
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Biography of George Eliot (1819-1880, born as Mary Anne Evans), British writer and poet. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom art exists not for art's sake but in the exploration and service of human life.
Author: Philip Maurice Davis Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199577374 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 445
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Biography of George Eliot (1819-1880, born as Mary Anne Evans), British writer and poet. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom art exists not for art's sake but in the exploration and service of human life.
Author: Nancy Henry Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118917677 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 320
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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: Rosemary Ashton Publisher: ISBN: 9781383035131 Category : Women novelists, English Languages : en Pages : 0
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From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the 'Very Interesting People Series' provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.
Author: Rosemarie Bodenheimer Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150172102X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 316
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Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.
Author: Frederick Robert Karl Publisher: ISBN: 9780006548393 Category : Authors, English Languages : en Pages : 756
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This full biography comes at a time when interest in Eliot's work is high. The author has previously written biographies of Conrad, Faulkner and Kafka.
Author: Rebecca Mead Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307984788 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 267
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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's masterpiece--the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure--and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us.
Author: Kathryn Hughes Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0815411219 Category : Novelists, English Languages : en Pages : 416
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This intensely engaging biography examines the extraordinary life of George Eliot from her childhood, through her scandalous liaison and social exile, to her hard-won status as one of Victorian England's literary elite.
Author: George 1819-1880 Eliot Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781362613763 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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Author: Avrom Fleishman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139481878 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages :
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It is well known that George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography traces the course of that development from her initial Christian culture, through her loss of faith and working out of a humanistic and cautiously progressive world view, to the thought-provoking achievements of her novels. It focuses on her responses to her reading in her essays, reviews and letters as well as in the historical pictures of Romola, the political implications of Felix Holt, the comprehensive view of English society in Middlemarch, and the visionary account of personal inspiration in Daniel Deronda. This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important addition to our understanding of Eliot's mind and works, as well as of her place in nineteenth-century British culture.
Author: Philip Maurice Davis
Author: Philip Maurice Davis
Author: Nancy Henry
Author: Rosemary Ashton
Author: Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Author: Frederick Robert Karl
Author: Rebecca Mead
Author: Kathryn Hughes
Author: George 1819-1880 Eliot
Author: Avrom Fleishman
Author: George Eliot