
Memory and History in George Eliot
Transfiguring the Past
Hao Li(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 3. August 2000
Book
Hardback
XIII, 227 pages
978-0-312-22834-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the interrelations between communal memory and the sense of history in George Eliot's novels by focusing on issues such as memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, memory and time, and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories. Hao Li offers a fresh critical reading informed by major nineteenth-century theories and argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of the dialects of memory and history, an understanding that both integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time.
Reviews / Votes
'On the one hand a closely and elegantly written critique of all her novels, Hao Li's book on the other hand weaves its way suggestively and stimulatingly through many examples of Victorian thought, British and European.' - Rosemary Ashton, Professor of English, University College, London
More details
Edition
2000 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIII, 227 p.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-22834-7 (9780312228347)
DOI
10.1057/9780230598607
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Book
01/2000
Palgrave Macmillan
€106.99
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Person
Hao Li is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto.
Content
Note on Editions, Abbreviations, References and Italics List of Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, History, and George Eliot Narrative and 'Immovable Roots': Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Sources of the Self and Moral Agency in The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss , and Silas Marner The Moment in History: The Temporal Sense of Emotional Development in Romola Determination and Moral Reform in Felix Holt The Language of Secular Religion in Middlemarch National Consciousness in Daniel Deronda Historical Consciousness and the Intellectual Notes Index