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Social figures : George Eliot, social history and literary representation / Daniel Cottom ;foreword by Terry Eagleton.
Van Pelt Library PR4692.S58 C68 1987
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- 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):
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Political and social views.
- Eliot, George.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Social history in literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- Literature and society--England.
- Literature and society.
- Political and social views.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1987]
- Summary:
- In Social Figures, Daniel Cottom maps the course of this bourgeois project. His analysis centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual, as exemplified in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0816615470 :
- 0816615489
- OCLC:
- 14098569
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