The Critical Response to George Eliot
Published on 30. March 1994
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-313-28773-2 (ISBN)
Description
George Eliot is one of the most important women novelists of the 19th century. Throughout her writings, she explores the interconnectedness of the self and society. This theme of interconnectedness creates the social, psychological, and religious worlds of her fictional communities. Eliot distinguished herself from other Victorian novelists through her realism, her use of an engaging narrator, and her indebtedness to thinkers such as Comte, Mill, and Darwin.
The essays assembled in this book represent the best criticism of Eliot's novels from the 19th century to the present day. The essays are grouped in sections devoted to particular novels, and within each section the essays are arranged chronologically to chart the evolving critical response to her work. An introductory chapter briefly overviews the philosophical influences on Eliot's novels, and a bibliography of selected additional readings concludes the book. The volume summarizes the critical response to Eliot's work and documents changing views toward her novels.
The essays assembled in this book represent the best criticism of Eliot's novels from the 19th century to the present day. The essays are grouped in sections devoted to particular novels, and within each section the essays are arranged chronologically to chart the evolving critical response to her work. An introductory chapter briefly overviews the philosophical influences on Eliot's novels, and a bibliography of selected additional readings concludes the book. The volume summarizes the critical response to Eliot's work and documents changing views toward her novels.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-28773-2 (9780313287732)
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KAREN L. PANGALLO is a Reference Librarian at the Lynn Campus Library of North Shore Community College in Massachusetts.
Content
Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction General Response to the Novels Contemporary Review by Edward Dowden Fortnightly Review by Sidney Colvin Social Analysis in the Novels of George Eliot by Claude T. Bissell George Eliot's Location of Value in History by Sara Moore Putzell Critical Response to Adam Bede Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by W.L. Collins The Times by E.S. Dallas Eliot to Francois D'Albert-Durade Adam Bede: Society in Flux by Brian D. Beyers Infanticide and Respectability: Hetty Sorrel as Abandoned Child in Adam Bede by Mason Harris Critical Response to The Mill on the Floss The Guardian, Unsigned Review The Times by E.S. Dallas The Mill on the Floss and the Contemporary Social Values: Tom Tulliver and Samuel Smiles by David Malcolm IOntogeny and Phylogeny in The Mill on the Floss by Preston Fambrough Critical Response to Silas Marner Eliot to John Blackwood The Saturday Review, Unsigned Review The Times by E.S. Dallas Westminster Review, Unsigned Review The Weaver of Raveloe: Metaphor as Narrative Persuasion in Silas Marner by Meri-Jane Rochelson Critical Response to Romola The Athenaeum, Unsigned Review The Spectator by R.H. Hutton Eliot to Richard Hutton The Westminster Review, Unsigned Review Romola and the Preservation of Household Gods by Henry Alley Critical Response to Felix Holt, the Radical The Times by E.S. Dallas Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell Frederic Harrison to Eliot Eliot to Frederic Harrison The Nation by Henry James, Jr. George Eliot's Vision of Society in Felix Holt, the Radical by Lenore Wisney Horowitz Critical Response to Middlemarch Eliot to Harriet Beecher Stowe John Blackwood to Eliot Saturday Review, Unsigned Review Blackwood's Magazine by W. Lucas Collins Fortnightly Review by Sidney Colvin The Moral Imagination of George Eliot by Bert G. Hornback Irony in the Mind's Life--Maturity: George Eliot's Middlemarch by Robert Coles Critical Response to Daniel Deronda The Strong Side of Daniel Deronda by R.H. Hutton Saturday Review, Unsigned Review Eliot to Mme. Eugene Bodichon Eliot to Harriet Beecher Stowe International Review by R.R. Bowker Daniel Deronda and the Victorian Search for Identity by Arlene M. Jackson The Rhetoric of Magic in Daniel Deronda by James Caron Selected Additional Readings Index