George Eliot’s Pulse
George Eliot’s Pulse by Neil Hertz, published by Stanford University Press on March 5, 2003, is a critical examination of George Eliot’s body of work, encompassing her fiction, letters, essays, and translations. This edition, comprising 192 pages, delves into Eliot’s exploration of authorship and the complexities of expression, as articulated in her early correspondence. Hertz analyzes the nuances of Eliot’s language, plotting, and characterization, revealing how her narratives often serve as allegories of writing and reflections of her own identity as an author.
Readers will find a series of essays that begin with thought-provoking language and navigate through various works by Eliot, connecting them to broader philosophical and literary discussions. Hertz’s approach highlights the intricate relationship between Eliot’s characters and her own experiences, suggesting that their actions can be interpreted as representations of her artistic journey. The book engages with themes relevant to 19th-century English literature and the role of women in literature, providing a comprehensive look at Eliot’s literary contributions and the critical discourse surrounding them.
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Ranging over all George Eliot’s fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot’s lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her “not simply to be, but to utter.”
Pursuing oddities of diction and figuration, of plotting and characterization, Hertz finds everywhere in Eliot’s works passages of high mimetic realism that ask to be read as allegories of writing or as characters whose actions and destinies can only be understood if they are seen as disguised surrogates of their author. Each essay begins with an intriguing or problematic bit of language, then moves about within a particular work of fiction or criss-cross to other writings of Eliot’s as well as to works by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.
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