Social figures : George Eliot, social history and literary representation / Daniel Cottom ;foreword by Terry Eagleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cottom, Daniel.

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 44.

Theory and history of literature ; v. 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history in literature.

Social problems in literature.

Literature and society--England.

Literature and society.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Political and social views.

Eliot, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual as exempli?ed in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. ""George Eliot"" and the Fables of the Liberal Intellectual; 2. Education and the Transfigurations of Realism; 3. Literary Consciousness and the Vacancy of the Individual; 4. Genteel Image and Democratic Example; 5. Imperfection and Compensation; 6. Realism and Romance; 7. The Supervision of Art and the Culture of the Sickroom; 8. Private Fragments and Public Monuments; 9. Domesticity and Teratology; Conclusion: Reproduction/Quotation/Criticism; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8250-X

OCLC:

171126499

Publisher Number:

9780816615476