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This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life. ... Read more

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Great guide for George Eliot's works
This book is not a careful analysis of all of George Eliot's works - you'd need a much bigger book to contain all of that. This book analyzes George Eliot's style of writing and the way she used the language to paint her fiction.

M's Mann uses many examples from M's Eliot's art to point out the wonderful wordplay inherent in the work. M's Eliot's sarcastic remarks, puns and metaphors are carefully chosen and explained. M's Mann's love of her subject material comes shining through her book.

If you are interested in George Eliot's works or you're a writer, wondering how does another writer generate plots and storylines, this is a great book for you.You will end up with a greater understanding of not only M's Eliot's work but the process of writing. ... Read more

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See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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This text contains eight essays on the theme of perspective and perception in several of George Eliot's novels. The contribitors are: Barbara Hardy, Mark Warren McLaughlin, Susan Stiritz, Carolyn Dickinson, Joanna Barszewska Narshall, Siward Atkins, Dennis Leavens and Felicia Bonaparte. ... Read more

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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of "the rise of the novel." Covering British novelists from Richardson to George Eliot, this study asks why the epistolary novel disappeared, how the book review emerged, and how editors' reproduction of old texts has shaped authors' production of new ones. This provocative book promises to change the way we think about the future of intellectual property, and the role that anthologies play in the classroom. ... Read more

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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of "the rise of the novel." Covering British novelists from Richardson to George Eliot, this study asks why the epistolary novel disappeared, how the book review emerged, and how editors' reproduction of old texts has shaped authors' production of new ones. This provocative book promises to change the way we think about the future of intellectual property, and the role that anthologies play in the classroom. ... Read more

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Famous for her powerful and popular fiction, George Eliot was also a remarkable critic, translator, and editor.This volume presents Eliot's views on science, religion, positivism, feminism, and politics, as well as her literary critical work on a range of authors and forms, including Tennyson, Browning, Goethe, Heine, German historical criticism of the Bible, classical drama, and popular contemporary novels.Most of the pieces in this volume were written before Eliot began to write fiction in 1856.They are a vivid representation of the analogical mind, the wit, and the sympathy which also characterize the narrators of her novels. ... Read more

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This set, the fifth collection in the Family History series, brings together valuable sources, including manuscript material from letters and diaries, which give insights into these crucial influences. A new introduction places the material in its literary and historical context. ... Read more

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A lot to learn about the great Woman here.
It is without doubt that Ms Hughes is great historian, knows her subject as well as it is possible to do and has researched Elliot thoroughly from a range of complex and interesting sources.
I would have personally expected the book to be a little tidier and to have greater flow and life than it does. I was not looking for sensation and fibs, Elliot's life was unconventional enough to set the pages alight; but they are instead rather damp. Still you cannot fail to learn much of this great Woman and the inspiration for her great works, from this weighty work. ... Read more

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These eighteen essays (1879) by Eliot, George (1819-80) reveal her wisdom on matters ranging from plagiarism and self-deception to moral blindness, national consciousness and antipathies. Character studies and philosophical reflections offer the reader a veiled glimpse of Eliot's perception of her own character, as well as those of her friends. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age. In the idea of vocation she found a way to explore how far it is possible to be ambitious both for oneself and for a large cause, and a way to probe the contradictions between ambitious, self-defining work and the older institutions; of family, community, and religion.

The book is solidly grounded in cultural and historical reality. Although Mintz concentrate on George Eliot and especially Middlemarch, he also examines the conceptions of self and work in Victorian biographies and autobiographies and the emergence in late-nineteenth-century fiction of the idea of the vocation of art.

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'...a book to be welcomed for its readable style, sound sense and density of information' - Ian Sutton, The George Eliot Review;George Eliot (Marian Evans) as a writer of fiction is the central theme of this literary life. The events of Eliot's formative years, together with the growth of her renowned intellect, are outlined, giving us an insight into the creative talent responsible for some of the best-known novelsin the English-language. Her views on other novels and novelists are detailed and we follow the development of her craft as writer as it evolved from the faithful representation of everyday life, as in Scenes of Clerical Life, through to the more complex considerations of Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. ... Read more