The Life of George Eliot

ISBN-13: 9781118917671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str.

Nancy Henry

Opis

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

Recenzje

It is no surprise that this book is now available in paperback: compact and hugely suggestive, bringing us new things to think about, showing us old myths to discard; in its productive disruption of commonplace fact/fiction approaches to the life and works mode, it enriches and enlarges our understanding of the writer and her writings.   (Cercles, 1 June 2015)

Spis treści

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

List of Abbreviations xiii

1 The History of a Writer: George Eliot and Biographies 1

2 Early Years: 1819 50 22

3 London and Lewes: 1850 4 64

4 Marian Lewes and George Eliot: 1855 60 95

5 Silas Marner and Romola: 1860 4 120

6 Felix Holt and The Spanish Gypsy: 1865 9 153

7 Middlemarch: 1870 2 181

8 Daniel Deronda: 1873 6 207

9 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: 1877 9 235

10 The Final Years: 1879 to Cross s Life 255

Bibliography 271

Index 287

O autorze

Nancy Henry is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the author of George Eliot and the British Empire (2002), and The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (2008), and co–editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (2009). She is also the recipient of a 2014/15 NEH Fellowship.

Blurb

The life of the Victorian novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) is as dramatic as the plot of a novel: a brilliant but unattractive country girl moves to London, elopes with a married man and is ostracized by society until she begins writing novels under a male pseudonym and goes on to accumulate great wealth and fame.

George Eliot s dedication to realism renders the relationship between her life and her novels especially intriguing. Incorporating the very latest research in the field of George Eliot studies, this biography re–examines the story of her life, cross–referencing its fascinating narrative with analysis of her fiction and poetry. In doing so, the author reveals how Eliot s life provides insight into her art as well as how her art can enhance our understanding of her life. Informed by cutting–edge academic research, and including critical interpretations of her work from multiple theoretical perspectives, this new Life of George Eliot is a critical biography for the twenty–first century.