George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780521027915
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Europe - Great Britain - General; Modern - 19th Century; Eliot, George, --1819-1880--Views on imperial; Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Views on imperialism; History / Great Britain; History-Modern - 19th Century; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Like many of her contemporaries, George Eliot looked to the empire for solutions to poverty and unemployment in England.