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The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans : George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction / Rosemarie Bodenheimer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Self in literature.
- Letter writing--History--19th century.
- Letter writing.
- English letters--History and criticism.
- English letters.
- Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Novelists, English--19th century--Correspondence.
- Women and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Autobiographical fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, English.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 295 p. :) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Frequently Cited Works
- Preface
- One. On Reading Letters
- Two. Constructing the Reader
- Three. Mary Ann Evans's Holy War
- Four. The Labor of Choice
- Five. The Outing of George Eliot
- Six. Ambition and Womanhood
- Seven. George Eliot's Stepsons
- Eight. Old and Young
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501721021
- 150172102X
- OCLC:
- 1080549654
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