
Authors in Context
(Authors in Context)
Tim Dolin(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 13. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-19-284047-9 (ISBN)
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Description
In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the variety of ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers, tourists, cinema-goers, and television viewers. The book includes a chronology of Eliot's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Students, from AS/A2 level upwards of George Eliot, nineteenth-century literature, English literature, the novel, the Victorian novel
Illustrations
9 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-284047-9 (9780192840479)
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