
The Life of George Eliot
A Critical Biography
Nancy Henry(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 13. April 2012
Book
Hardback
314 pages
978-1-4051-3705-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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
Reviews / Votes
"...this learned, adventurous new biographer has changed the landscape of George Eliot studies." (The George Eliot Review, 1 November 2012) "Clean prose and relatively minimal endnotes make the book accessible to undergraduates. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 October 2012) "Henry provides a useful reminder that that old-fashioned pejorative, adulteress, might have been applied to Eliot as well as to Agnes, and she provides a sensitive analysis of the novels in the light of that insight." (The New Yorker, 6 August 2012) "Driven neither by hero-worship or spite, Henry's "critical biography" demonstrates what treasure there is still to be found in even the most worked-over subjects. The trick is to ask the questions that everyone else assumed had been answered years ago." (The Guardian, 2 June 2012) "Such insights fill this book, which shows penetrating intelligence from first to last. Nancy Henry has managed, seamlessly but always with needed distinctions, to unite, in exacting interrelation and with edges sharp, George Eliot's lived experience and imaginative experience." (George Eliot-G.H. Lewes Studies, 1 September 2012)More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 15.7 cm
Thickness: 2.1 cm
Weight
542 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-3705-8 (9781405137058)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
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), the Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (2008), and co-editor of Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture (2009).
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. The History of a Writer: George Eliot and Biographies
2. Early Years (1819-1849)
3. London and George Lewes (1850-54)
4. Marian Lewes and George Eliot (1855-59)
5. Silas Marner and Romola (1860-64)
6. Felix Holt, the Radical and The Spanish Gypsy (1865-69)
7. Middlemarch (1870-72)
8. Daniel Deronda (1873-76)
9. Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1877-78)
10. The Final Years: 1879 to Cross's Life
Works Cited
Index