Avrom Fleishman

George Eliot's Intellectual Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2010 portrait of a major Victorian intellectual was an important addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century British culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117364
• ISBN-10: 0521117364
• Artikelnr.: 26526003

Inhaltsangabe

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.