George Eliot's Intellectual Life.

This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important new addition to scholarship on nineteenth-century British culture.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fleishman, Avrom
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	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. Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 1800-1899 Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography. Intellectuals > Great Britain > Biography. History Intellectuals Novelists, English Philosophy Political and social views Religion Literature Great Britain Biographies
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The "Evangelical": starting out in a Christian culture; Chapter 2 The Apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos; Chapter 3 The Journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview; Chapter 4 The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers; Chapter 5 The Novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking; Chapter 6 The Historian: tracking ideals utopian and national in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy; Chapter 7 The "Radical": taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt.
Chapter 8 The Encyclopedist: transcending the past in MiddlemarchChapter 9 The Visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda; Chapter 10 The Intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such; Notes; Works cited; Name index.

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