Social figures
Subtitle: George Eliot, social history and literary representation
By: Daniel Cottom ; foreword by Terry Eagleton.
Series: Theory and history of literature ;; v. 44
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Political and social views.; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Social problems in literature.; Social history in literature.; Mimesis in literature.
Description: An analysis of the discourse of the liberal intellectual, based on the assumption that acts of discourse not only take place in a society but are constructions of a society, with a focus on the writing of George Eliot.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 221-233.
Includes index.