George Eliot's English travels [electronic resource] : composite characters and coded communications / Kathleen McCormack.
"McCormack traces the ways in which George Eliot gathered material during her travels and also drafted long sections of the novels while away from her London home. She argues that by examining the choices George Eliot made in transforming, discarding or directly describing her English originals...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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Series: | Context and genre in English literature.
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Summary: | "McCormack traces the ways in which George Eliot gathered material during her travels and also drafted long sections of the novels while away from her London home. She argues that by examining the choices George Eliot made in transforming, discarding or directly describing her English originals, we might take a significant step forward in the interpretation of her writings. Where other critics have tried to interpret characters as one-to-one renderings of living or dead models, for example, this study reveals more elaborate blendings of what George Eliot called the "widely sundered elements" that made up her fiction. McCormack also reaches the fascinating conclusion that the novels were a form of coded communication between the author and people in her life, including other prominent Victorians such as Edward Burne-Jones, John Blackwood and Barbara Bodichon." "Presenting fresh biographical information and original insights into George Eliot's writing strategies, George Eliot's English Travels promises a decisive shifts in our understanding of one of the most important figures in Victorian literature."--Jacket. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-184) and index. |
ISBN: | 0203008332 9780203008331 9786610247530 6610247536 9780415360227 0415360226 9781134238606 1134238606 9781134238552 113423855X 9781134238590 1134238592 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |