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.
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