George Eliot's intellectual life
By: Avrom Fleishman.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521117364
Subjects: Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Religion; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Philosophy; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Political and social views; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Literature; Eliot, George, -- 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- History; Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The "evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture; title: The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos; title: The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview; title: The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers; title: The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking; title: The historian: tracking the idealistic, utopian and national, in Romola and The Spanish gypsy; title: The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt; title: The encyclopaedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch; title: The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda; title: The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.