George Eliot in context / edited by Margaret Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Margaret, 1942- editor.

Series:

Literature in context.

Literature in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prodigiously learned, alive to the massive social changes of her time, defiant of many Victorian orthodoxies, George Eliot has always challenged her readers. She is at once chronicler and analyst, novelist of nostalgia and monumental thinker. In her great novel Middlemarch she writes of 'that tempting range of relevancies called the universe'. This volume identifies a range of 'relevancies' that inform both her fictional and her non-fictional writings. The range and scale of her achievement are brought into focus by cogent essays on the many contexts - historical, intellectual, political, social, cultural - to her work. In addition there are discussions of her critical history and legacy, as well as of the material conditions of production and distribution of her novels and her journalism. The volume enables fuller understanding and appreciation, from a twenty-first-century standpoint, of the life and work of one of the nineteenth century's major writers.

Contents:

Chronology / Margaret Harris

Part I. Life and Afterlife.

George Eliot's life / Kathryn Hughes

Publishers and publication / Joanne Shattock

Editions of George Eliot's work / Joanne Shattock

Genre / Nancy Henry

The biographical tradition / Margaret Harris

Afterlife / Margaret Harris

Part II. Critical Fortunes.

Critical responses: to 1900 / Juliette Atkinson

Critical responses: 1900-1970 / Juliette Atkinson

Critical responses: 1970-present / Juliette Atkinson

Part III. Cultural and Social Contexts.

Class / Ruth Livesey

Dress / Clair Hughes

Education / Elizabeth Gargano

Etiquette / Judith Flanders

Families and kinship / Josie Billington

Gender and the woman question / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi

Historiography / Joanne Wilkes

Industry and technology / Richard Menke

Interiors / Judith Flanders

Landscape / John Rignall

Language / Melissa Raines

Law / Kieran Dolin

Metropolitanism / John Rignall

Money / Dermot Coleman

Music / Delia da Sousa Correa

Philosophy / Moira Gatens

Politics / Robert Dingley

Race / Alicia Carroll

Religion / Oliver Lovesey

Romanticism / Joanne Wilkes

Rural life / Carol A. Martin

The science of the mind / Pauline Nestor

Secularism / Michael Rectenwald

Theatre / Lynn Voskuil

Transport / Ruth Livesey

Travel and tourism / Judith Johnston

Visual arts / Leonée Ormond.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89012-3

1-107-24088-3

1-107-52742-2

1-107-25062-5

1-107-24730-6

1-107-24979-1

1-139-01949-X

1-107-24813-2

1-107-24896-5

OCLC:

852154642