Making Up Society : the novels of George Eliot / Philip Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Philip, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--England--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Social problems in literature.

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

Eliot, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 244 pages)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.

Summary:

Fisher places the work of George Eliot within the great evolution that constitutes the nineteenth-century English novel. He reports not only about her work, but about an evolving complex literary form. Fisher examines Eliot's work as responding to "the loss of society," the breakdown between public life and individua moral history. As trust in the community as a base of moral life weakens, decisive changes occur: the English novel accommodated itself to the disappearance of society and changed from the representation of individuals as members of a social order to the description of the self surrounded by collections of unrelated others.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Textual Note

1. George Eliot and the Social Novel

2. Adam Bede

3. The Mill on the Floss

4. Silas Marner

5. Romola

6. Felix Holt, the Radical

7. Middlemarch

8. Daniel Deronda

9. Social Knowledge

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822976967

082297696X