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Author: Amanda Anderson (Brown University, USA) ,
Harry E. Shaw (Cornell University, USA)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 0.807kg
ISBN: 9781119072478
ISBN 10: 1119072476
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 25 December 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A Companion to George Eliot is divided into four parts: Imaginative Form and Literary Context; Works; Life and Reception; Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts ... [It] contains insights, on for instance, Eliot's narratology ... to on-going debates on evolution. There are fine essays on relatively neglected works such as Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials ... Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers. Reference Reviews Many of the literary-critical voices contributing essays ... stand out, replete with critical insights on, for instance, Eliot's narratology, use of form, critical reception, African American connections, awareness of the law, and her relevance today ... The collection offers a very helpful, detailed index. [A] most useful critical reference work ... Recommended: Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. CHOICE
A Companion to George Eliot is divided into four parts: Imaginative Form and Literary Context; Works; Life and Reception; Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts [It] contains insights, on for instance, Eliot s narratology to on-going debates on evolution. There are fine essays on relatively neglected works such as Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers. Reference Reviews Many of the literary-critical voices contributing essays stand out, replete with critical insights on, for instance, Eliot s narratology, use of form, critical reception, African American connections, awareness of the law, and her relevance today ... The collection offers a very helpful, detailed index. [A] most useful critical reference work Recommended: Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. CHOICE
A Companion to George Eliot is divided into four parts: Imaginative Form and Literary Context; Works; Life and Reception; Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts ... [It] contains insights, on for instance, Eliot's narratology ... to on-going debates on evolution. There are fine essays on relatively neglected works such as Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials ... Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers. Reference Reviews Many of the literary-critical voices contributing essays ... stand out, replete with critical insights on, for instance, Eliot's narratology, use of form, critical reception, African American connections, awareness of the law, and her relevance today ... The collection offers a very helpful, detailed index. [A] most useful critical reference work ... Recommended: Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. CHOICE
Author Information
Amanda Anderson is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, USA, and Director of the School of Criticism and Theory. Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 2012, she taught at Johns Hopkins University, where she served as department chair from 2003–2009. She is the author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (1993). Prof Anderson has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (2002). Harry E. Shaw is Professor of English at Cornell University, USA, where he has been teaching since 1978. Specializing in nineteenth-century English novels and narrative poetics, he explores the influence of the British novel on the rise of historical consciousness in Europe, and the ways in which novels help us conceptualize our place in history. He is the author of The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors (1983) and Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (1999), and co-author of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot 2008.
