George Eliot

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-8516-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 219 g

Reihe: Writers Lives

Combining a biographical approach with close analysis of George Eliot's novels, Barbara Hardy introduces a new perspective on the life and works of one of Britain's greatest novelists

- A concise and illuminating portrait of George Eliot's life and work
- Combines biographical insight with sensitive close readings of Eliot's novels, offering fascinating links between her life and fiction
- Written by one of the leading experts on Eliot and the Victorian novel.

George Eliot (1819-1880) was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period and she remains one of Britain's greatest novelists. This biography offers new insights into Eliot's life and work focusing on the themes, patterns, relationships, feelings and language common to both her life and writing. Barbara Hardy discusses Eliot's relations with parents and siblings, her brave but joyful unmarried partnership with George Henry Lewes, her friendships and her late brief marriage to the younger John Cross. Setting her life and fiction side by side, Hardy reveals Eliot's ideas about society, home, foreignness, nature, gender, religion, sex, illness and death and her experiences as translator, journalist, editor and novelist.

Drawing on letters, journals, journalism and the memoirs and biographies written by contemporaries, Hardy brings together a biographical approach with close reading of Eliot's novels to give a combined perspective on her life and art. This book offers students, academics and readers alike an illuminating portrait of George Eliot as a woman and a writer.

Zielgruppe

General, Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardy, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Notes on References and Abbreviations
Chronology: An Outline of George Eliot's Life and Writings
1. Scenes of Family Life
2. Home, Travel and a Need for Foreignness
3. Two or Three Love Stories
4. Acquaintances and Friends
5. Illness and Death
6. Words, Objects and Metaphors
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Hardy is Emeritus Professor of the University of London (Birkbeck), UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has written many critical studies, including two books on George Eliot.