George Eliot's intellectual life
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...
| Résumé: | 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 the idealistic, 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 |
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| Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 0521117364 |