George Eliot's intellectual life / Avrom Fleishman.

Author/creator Fleishman, Avrom
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Descriptionxi, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Religion.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Philosophy.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Political and social views.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge and learning.
Novelists, English--19th century. --Biography.
Intellectuals--Great Britain. --Biography.

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 encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch -- The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda -- The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 282-291) and index.
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LCCN 2009021481
ISBN9780521117364