George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism

by K. M. Newton, K.M. Newton, Saleel Nurbhai

This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda, and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though previous studies have attempted to qualify the still-dominant view that George Eliot is firmly as part of the realistic tradition, this study goes further by demonstrating that a cohesive mythic structure with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333963814
• ISBN13: 9780333963814
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.8"