George Eliot Authors In Context Oxford Worlds Classics Tim Dolin by Tim Dolin 0192840479, 9780192840479, 9780191517891 instant download after payment.

Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss refect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers and television viewers. - ;In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness'
Content: Contents; List of Illustrations; A Chronology of George Eliot; Abbreviations; 1. The Insurgent and the Sibyl: The Life of George Eliot; 2. The Fabric of Society; 3. Literary and Cultural Contexts; 4. Eliot and Social and Political Issues; 5. Eliot and the Woman Question; 6. Eliot and Religion; 7. Eliot and Victorian Science; 8. Recontextualizing George Eliot; Notes; Further Reading; Websites; Film and Television Adaptations; Index.
Abstract: Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss refect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers and television viewers. - ;In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness'