George Eliot''s Intellectual Life

Informationen zum Autor Avrom Fleishman is Emeritus Professor of English at The Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual was an important addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century British culture. Zusammenfassung George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of history! literature! philosophy and political thought shaped her fiction and her non-fiction. This intellectual biography tells the story of her development from her initial Christian culture towards a humanistic and progressive world view which informed her crowning literary achievements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The 'evangelical': starting out in a Christian culture; 2. The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos; 3. The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview; 4. The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers; 5. The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and myth-making; 6. The historian: tracking the idealistic - utopian and national - in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy; 7. The 'radical': taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt; 8. The encyclopaedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch; 9. The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda; 10. The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such; Works cited; Index.

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• Authors: Avrom Fleishman, Avrom (The Johns Hopkins University) Fleishman, Fleishman Avrom
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107402669
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40266-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers