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Author:

Fleishman, Avrom.

Title:

George Eliot's intellectual life / Avrom Fleishman.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 296 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Eliot, George,--1819-1880.
Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.
Intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Religion.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Philosophy.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Political and social views.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Literature.--Literature.
Eliot, George,--1819-1880--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-291) and index.

Contents:

The "evangelical" : starting out in a Christian culture -- The apostate : moving beyond the Christian mythos -- The journalist : editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview -- The Germanist : balancing the counterweight of German thinkers -- The novelist : mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking -- The historian : tracking ideals - utopian and national - in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy -- The "radical" : taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt -- The encyclopaedist : transcending the past in Middlemarch -- The visionary : transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda -- The intellectual : cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such.

ISBN:

0521117364
9780521117364

OCLC:

(OCoLC)318871980

LCCN:

2009021481

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)