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As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to take on the kind of political and philosophical fiction that had previously been a male preserve, combining rigorous intellectual ideas with a sensitive understanding of human relationships and making her one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. This innovative introduction provides students with the religious, political, scientific and cultural contexts they need to understand and appreciate her novels, stories, poetry and critical essays. Nancy Henry also traces the reception of her work to the present, surveying a range of critical and theoretical responses. Each novel is discussed in a separate section, making this the most comprehensive short introduction available to this important author.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521670975
eBay Product ID (ePID)87237502
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Book TitleThe Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot
AuthorNancy Henry
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2008
Dimensions
Item Height226mm
Item Width152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorNancy Henry
Series TitleCambridge Introductions to Literature
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom