George Eliot's intellectual life [electronic resource] / Avrom Fleishman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleishman, Avrom
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Religion.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Philosophy.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Political and social views.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Knowledge and learning.
Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography.
Intellectuals > Great Britain > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • The "evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture
  • The apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos
  • The journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview
  • The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers
  • The novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking
  • The historian: tracking ideals-utopian and national-in Romola and The Spanish gypsy
  • The "radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt
  • The encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch
  • The visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda
  • The intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of theophrastus Such.