Memory and history in George Eliot
Subtitle: transfiguring the past
By: Hao Li.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- History.; Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Autobiographical memory in literature.; History in literature.; Memory in literature.
Description: "Is communal memory intrinsically related to a sense of history? If so, how? And what are their interrelations? Fundamental to these questions are issues that engaged the thinking of many nineteenth-century writers and continue to engage us today: for example, memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, the temporal sense and historical meaning of memory and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories.".

"Hao Li argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of these issues; she explores the ways in which they are conceptualized and transformed in Eliot's novels."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-219) and index.