Selected essays, poems and other writings
By: George Eliot ; edited by A.S. Byatt and Nicholas Warren ; with an introduction by A.S. Byatt.
Contributors: Byatt, A. S. 1936-; Warren, Nicholas, 1949-
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1990
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
Work titles: Selections.
Description: The works assembled here introduce George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts from her poems, and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe, and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most rewarding of writers.