Fleishman, Avrom.

George Eliot's intellectual life [electronic resource] / Avrom Fleishman. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xi, 296 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-291) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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--Literature.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 --Knowledge--History.


Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.
Intellectuals--Great Britain--Biography.


Electronic books.

PR4681 / .F58 2010

823/.8 B