George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance.

The study examines Eliot's use of the theme of inheritance as a metaphor for politics - linking generations in the kindred family and providing bonds of sympathy for the wider family of the nation. It describes the stress of Eliot's novels on the political traditions and culture of the nat...

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Main Author: Semmel, Bernard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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