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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450869003321

Autore

Semmel Bernard

Titolo

George Eliot and the politics of national inheritance [[electronic resource] /] / Bernard Semmel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-19-535874-0

1-280-52718-8

1-4294-0584-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

823/.8

Soggetti

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Political fiction, English - History and criticism

National characteristics, English, in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Prologue; 1. The Myth of the Disinherited One; 2. Free Will and the Politics of Inheritance; 3. The Positivist Novel; 4. Positivism and the Politics of Compromise in Middlemarch; 5. The Disinherited Races; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The study examines Eliot's use of the theme of inheritance as a metaphor for politics - linking generations in the kindred family and providing bonds of sympathy for the wider family of the nation. It describes the stress of Eliot's novels on the political traditions and culture of the nation.