George Eliot (Marian Evans) as a writer of fiction is the central theme of this literary life. The events of Eliot's formative years, together with the growth of her renowned intellect, are outlined, giving us an insight into the creative talent responsible for some of the best-known novels in the English-language. Her views on other novels and novelists are detailed and we follow the development of her craft as writer as it evolved from the faithful representation of everyday life, as in Scenes of Clerical Life, through to the more complex considerations of Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
George Eliot (Marian Evans) as a writer of fiction is the central theme of this literary life. The events of Eliot's formative years, together with th...
First published in 1984. Although "Middlemarch "was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely recognised as George Eliot s finest work, one of the greatest English novels, and one of the classic texts of nineteenth-century fiction.
The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to "Middlemarch "are fully examined, with particular attention paid to Eliot s key doctrines of fellow-feeling and the humanistic economy of salvation. Professor McSweeney also provides fresh and...
First published in 1984. Although "Middlemarch "was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the las...
