George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Atkinson, Juliette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198864329 ISBN 13: 9780198864325

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2025

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George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we might feel more generous towards each other. But human beings are complex, and to capture that complexity Eliot drew on an astonishing range of philosophical, psychological, and scientific ideas. She hoped her work might do good, yet she was clear-eyed about the limits of both human sympathy and the novel.

In this Very Short Introduction, Juliette Atkinson explores the ideas feeding Eliot's fiction and looks at the literary techniques - such as narrative voice, genre, imagery, structure, and syntax - that she used to embody them. These shape her recurrent themes: the stifling nature of gossip, the hardships experienced by commonplace individuals, the duty of practising fellow-feeling and the difficulty of doing so. Atkinson argues that George Eliot was a social outcast who became a sage, through the creation of some of the most influential novels ever written in English.

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Professor Juliette Atkinson is Professor of English at University College London. Her books include Victorian Biography Reconsidered (2010), French Novels and the Victorians (2017), and editions of The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Jane Eyre for Oxford World's Classics. She is also the Victorian-Present editor for the Review of English Studies.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198864329
• ISBN 13: 9780198864325
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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