George Eliot’s Intellectual Life
George Eliot’s Intellectual Life by Avrom Fleishman, published by Cambridge University Press on August 23, 2011, is a reprint edition comprising 310 pages. This intellectual biography explores the evolution of George Eliot’s thinking throughout her career, highlighting how her extensive knowledge of literature, history, philosophy, and religion influenced her fiction. The study traces her journey from a Christian upbringing to a humanistic worldview, examining her responses to literature through her essays, reviews, and letters.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Eliot’s intellectual development, including her reflections in works such as Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. This book delves into the political and social contexts of her writings, offering insights into her contributions to literary criticism and her role in nineteenth-century British culture. Through this comprehensive analysis, Fleishman provides a deeper understanding of Eliot’s mind and the significance of her literary achievements.
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It is well known that George Eliot’s intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography traces the course of that development from her initial Christian culture, through her loss of faith and working out of a humanistic and cautiously progressive world view, to the thought-provoking achievements of her novels. It focuses on her responses to her reading in her essays, reviews and letters as well as in the historical pictures of Romola, the political implications of Felix Holt, the comprehensive view of English society in Middlemarch, and the visionary account of personal inspiration in Daniel Deronda. This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important addition to our understanding of Eliot’s mind and works, as well as of her place in nineteenth-century British culture.
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