Dorothea Barrett

Vocation and Desire

George Eliot's Heroines

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist and sybil. Vocation and Desire questions that image, and finds in her work elements of anger, feminism, subversiveness, revenge, iconoclasm, wit, and eroticism - elements that we have been taught not to expect. Barrett's study of the heroines of the six major novels and issues of language and desire provides a refreshing and acute analysis of the contradictions and strengths of Eliot's work. title will be of interest to students of literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781138182196
• ISBN-10: 1138182192
• Artikelnr.: 43542534

Autorenporträt

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Making and Remaking of George Eliot 2.
Reconstructing George Eliot 3. Hetty and Dinah: The Battle for Predominance
in 'Adam Bede' 4. Demonism, Feminism, and Incest in 'The Mill on the Floss'
5. 'Romola': Woman as History 6. Language and Desire in 'Felix Holt' 7.
Dialectic and Polyphony in 'Middlemarch' 8. The Open-Endedness of 'Daniel
Deronda' 9. George Eliot and Twentieth-Century Feminist Perspectives;
Notes; References; Index