
George Meredith
Jacqueline Banerjee(Author)
Liverpool University Press
Published on 1. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-7463-1214-8 (ISBN)
Description
George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major debates of the Victorian age. He became at once an arbiter of taste in his own times, and a trailblazer for modernism. In many ways an extraordinary, larger-than-life figure, he has always had his admirers, and critics have continued to be drawn to the biographical, socio-political, scientific and experimental aspects of his oeuvre. Some of his works, including the sonnets ofModern Love, his 'Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit', and novels like The Egoist, have attained the status of classics. The present study focuses on such works, putting them in context to show how innovatively this versatile writer shaped and reshaped his material, and how powerfully his inimitable voice still resonates with (and challenges) us in the twenty first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7463-1214-8 (9780746312148)
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Jacqueline Banerjee
George Meredith
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06/2012
1st Edition
Northcote House
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Jacqueline Banerjee has held lectureships in English Literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and Kobe College, Japan. She has also given courses at King's College London as an honorary member of staff and is now the Associate Editor (UK) for the Victorian Web.