The transferred life of George Eliot
Subtitle: the biography of a novelist
By: Philip Davis
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780199577378
Subjects: Eliot, George,; English Women authors; Criticism and interpretation; Biography
Other titles: George Eliot
Description: Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as like the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology-'that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of George Eliot goes beyond the much-told story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom art exists not for art's sake but in the exploration and service of human life. It shows the formation and the workings of George Eliot's mind as it plays into her creation of some of the greatest novels of the Victorian era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Family likenesses, 1819-42; title: The valley of humiliation: The single woman, 1840-51; title: Three translations; title: The two loves of 1852: 1. Herbert Spencer; title: The two loves of 1852: 2. George Henry Lewes; title: 'The first time' in the 'new era': Scenes of clerical life, 1856-7; title: Adam Bede: 'The other side of the commonplace', 1857-9; title: The Mill on the floss: 'My problems are purely psychical', 1859-60: Psychology and the levels of thought; title: 'Great facts have struggled to find a voice': The toll of the 1860s; title: Middlemarch: Realism and thoughtworld, 1869-71; title: Daniel Deronda: The great transmitter and the last experiment, 1873-6.