Download or read book George Eliot and Intoxication written by K. McCormack and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-11-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent socio-political problems as diseases in a social body and solutions to those problems (especially solutions that depend on some kind of written language) as volatile remedies that retain the potential to either kill or cure.
Download or read book George Eliot and Intoxication written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout George Eliot's fiction, not only do a remarkable number of her characters act under the influence of unwise consumption of alcohol and opium, but drugs also recur often as metaphors and allusions. Together, they create an extensive pattern of drug/disease references that represent socio-political problems as diseases in a social body and solutions to those problems (especially solutions that depend on some kind of written language) as volatile remedies that retain the potential to either kill or cure.
Download or read book The Life of George Eliot written by Nancy Henry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. A fresh look at George Eliot's captivating life story Includes original new analysis of her writing Deploys the latest biographical research Combines literary criticism with biographical narrative to offer a rounded perspective
Download or read book The Essays of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mill on the Floss written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of George Eliot Essays and uncollected papers written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Eliot written by Jan Jedrzejewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figure for women’s writing and her novels, including The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, are commonly ranked as literary classics. This guide to Eliot’s enduringly popular work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Eliot’s texts, from publication to the present an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Eliot’s life and work, situated in a broader critical history cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of George Eliot and seeking not only a guide to her works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.
Download or read book The Works of George Eliot The legend of Jubal and other poems written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of George Eliot Essays and Leaves from a note book written by George Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wisdom of George Eliot written by George Eliot and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Eliot s English Travels written by Kathleen McCormack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot’s more than fifty long and short journeys within England took her to dozens of sites scattered around the country. Revising the traditional notion that George Eliot drew her settings and characters only from the areas of her Warwickshire childhood, Kathleen McCormack demonstrates that English travel furnished the novelist with a wide variety of originals for the composite characters and settings she would so memorably create. McCormack traces the way in which George Eliot gathered material during her travels and also drafted long sections of the novels while away from her London home. She argues that by examining the choices George Eliot made in transforming, discarding or directly describing her English originals, we might take a significant step forward in the interpretation of her writings. Where other critics have tried to interpret characters as one-to-one renderings of living or dead models, for example, this study reveals more elaborate blendings of what George Eliot called the ‘widely sundered elements’ that made up her fiction. McCormack also reaches the fascinating conclusion that the novels were a form of coded communication between the author and people in her life, including other prominent Victorians such as Edward Burne-Jones, Robert Lytton and Barbara Bodichon. Presenting fresh biographical information and original insights into George Eliot’s writing strategies, George Eliot’s English Travels promises a decisive shift in our understanding of one of the most important figures in Victorian literature.
Download or read book The Transferred Life of George Eliot written by Philip Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as like the feeling of entering the confessional in which the novelist sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology—'that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of George Eliot goes beyond the much-told story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom art exists not for art's sake but in the exploration and service of human life. It shows the formation and the workings of George Eliot's mind as it plays into her creation of some of the greatest novels of the Victorian era. When at the age of 37 Marian Evans became George Eliot, this change followed long mental preparation and personal suffering. During this time she related her power of intelligence to her capacity for feeling: discovering that her thinking and her art had to combine both. That was the great ambition of her novels—not to be mere pastimes or fictions but experiments in life and helps in living, through the deepest account of human complexity available. Philip Davis's illuminating new biography will enable you both to see through George Eliot's eyes and to feel what it is like to be seen by her, in the imaginative involvement of her readers with her characters.
Download or read book The Transferred Life of George Eliot written by Philip Maurice Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of George Eliot (1819-1880, born as Mary Anne Evans), British writer and poet. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom art exists not for art's sake but in the exploration and service of human life.
Download or read book George Eliot s English Travels written by Kathleen McCormack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot’s more than fifty long and short journeys within England took her to dozens of sites scattered around the country. Revising the traditional notion that George Eliot drew her settings and characters only from the areas of her Warwickshire childhood, Kathleen McCormack demonstrates that English travel furnished the novelist with a wide variety of originals for the composite characters and settings she would so memorably create. McCormack traces the way in which George Eliot gathered material during her travels and also drafted long sections of the novels while away from her London home. She argues that by examining the choices George Eliot made in transforming, discarding or directly describing her English originals, we might take a significant step forward in the interpretation of her writings. Where other critics have tried to interpret characters as one-to-one renderings of living or dead models, for example, this study reveals more elaborate blendings of what George Eliot called the ‘widely sundered elements’ that made up her fiction. McCormack also reaches the fascinating conclusion that the novels were a form of coded communication between the author and people in her life, including other prominent Victorians such as Edward Burne-Jones, Robert Lytton and Barbara Bodichon. Presenting fresh biographical information and original insights into George Eliot’s writing strategies, George Eliot’s English Travels promises a decisive shift in our understanding of one of the most important figures in Victorian literature.
