George Eliot in Context

by Margaret Harris

Book Overview

George Eliot has always challenged her readers. Prodigiously learned, alive to the massive social changes of her time, defiant of many Victorian orthodoxies, she is at once chronicler and analyst, novelist of nostalgia and monumental thinker. In her great novel Middlemarch she writes of 'that tempting range of relevancies called the universe'. This volume identifies a range of 'relevancies' that form the various contexts - of her time, and of our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107527422
• ISBN13: 9781107527423
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"