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Selected essays, poems and other writings / George Eliot ; edited by A.S. Byatt and Nicholas Warren ; with an introduction by A.S. Byatt.
LIBRA - Special PR4653 .B92 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century.
- English literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 505 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Penguin, 1990.
- Summary:
- The works assembled here introduce George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts from her poems, and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe, and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most rewarding of writers.
- Contents:
- Essays. Prospectus of the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review ; Woman in France : Madame de Sablé ; Evangelical teaching : Dr. Cumming ; German wit : Heinrich Heine ; Natural history of German life ; Silly novels by lady novelists ; Worldliness and other-worldliness : the poet young ; Ilfracombe journal ; Notes on form in art
- George Eliot-Frederic Harrison correspondence [1866-1870]
- Reviews. Brothers in opinion : Edgar Quinet and Jules Michelet ; J.A. Froude's The nemesis of faith ; R.W. Mackay's The progress of the intellect ; W.R. Greg's The creed of Christendom ; Thomas Carlyle's Life of John Sterling ; Lord Brougham's literature ; Morality of Wilhelm Meister ; Charles Kingsley's Westward ho! ; Geraldine Jewsbury's Constance Herbert ; Saint-Marc Girardin's Love in the drama ; Ashford Owen's A lost love and C.W.S. Brooks's Aspen Court ; Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft ; Translations and translators ; Thomas Carlyle ; Robert Browning's Men and women ; Peter von Bohlen's Introduction to the book of Genesis ; Antigone and its moral ; John Ruskin's Modern painters, vol. III ; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred, Charles Reade's It is never too late to mend and Frederika Bremer's Hertha ; William Lecky's The influence of rationalism
- Poems. From Armgart ; From The Spanish gypsy ; Brother and sister sonnets
- From Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Debasing the moral currency
- Translations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-505).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Selected essays, poems and other writings.
- ISBN:
- 0140431489
- 9780140431483
- OCLC:
- 22179751
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