Oxford Handbook of George Eliot

Informationen zum Autor Juliette Atkinson studied at UCL and the University of Oxford. Since 2009 she has worked at UCL, where she is now Professor of English. Her research focuses on three main areas: nineteenth-century fiction (especially the work of George Eliot, two of whose novels she has edited for the Oxford World's Classics series), life-writing (she has published on the Victorian preoccupation with 'obscure' lives) and transnational literary works, and Anglo-French exchanges in particular. She is also an editor (Victorian-present) for The Review of English Studies.Elisha Cohn received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. Since 2011, she has worked in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where she is currently Associate Professor. Her research and teaching focuses on theory of the novel from the nineteenth century to present; literature and science; and affect theory. She is the author of Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel (OUP, 2016) and essays in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot presents fifty-two perspectives on George Eliot, one of the major novelists in English of the nineteenth century. Topics covered include Eliot's personal and intellectual relationships, her engagement with other authors, detailed analyses of published and unpublished works, and Eliot's legacy for later writers.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2025
• EAN: 9780192856593
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285659-3
• No. of pages: 880
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form