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George Eliot

A Literary Life

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Kerry McSweeney

    1. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Warwickshire 1819–1849

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 1-21

  3. London 1850–1857

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 22-41

  4. Critical Writings / Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 42-61

  5. Adam Bede (1858) and Silas Marner (1861)

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 62-79

  6. The Woman Question / The Mill on the Floss (1860)

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 80-97

  7. The 1860s / Romola (1863) and The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 98-117

  8. Felix Holt (1866) and Middlemarch (1871–72)

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 118-130

  9. The 1870s / Daniel Deronda (1876)

    • Kerry McSweeney
    Pages 131-145

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 146-156
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About this book

George Eliot (Marian Evans) as a writer of fiction is the central theme of this literary life. The events of Eliot's formative years, together with the growth of her renowned intellect, are outlined, giving us an insight into the creative talent responsible for some of the best-known novels in the English-language. Her views on other novels and novelists are detailed and we follow the development of her craft as writer as it evolved from the faithful representation of everyday life, as in Scenes of Clerical Life, through to the more complex considerations of Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.

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'...a book to be welcomed for its readable style, sound sense and density of information' - Ian Sutton, The George Eliot Review

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  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Kerry McSweeney

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