George Eliot's intellectual life
By: Avrom Fleishman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521117364
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-291) and 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 ideals-utopian and national-in Romola and The Spanish gypsy; title: The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt; title: The encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch; title: The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda; title: The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.