George Eliot: Adam Bede, the Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch

by Lucie Armitt

Book Overview

George Eliot's reception as a writer has been checkered from the start. Prejudice followed the revelation of her real identity as a woman, and she suffered from critical neglect at the start of the twentieth century before a postwar renaissance of interest established her as one of the most powerful of British novelists. Focusing on Eliot's three most influential and widely read "Midlands" novels, this guide traces recent critical interpretations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231124236
• ISBN13: 9780231124232
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher