George Eliot and the British Empire / / Nancy Henry [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455338303321
• Autore: Henry Nancy <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12479-4; 0-511-32931-8; 0-511-11992-5; 0-521-02791-8; 1-280-15952-9; 0-511-04468-2; 0-511-48483-6; 0-511-15659-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 34
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetti: Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Great Britain Colonies History 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-178) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Imperial knowledge : George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and the literature of empire -- 2. "Colleagues in failure" : emigration and the Lewes boys -- 3. Investing in empire -- 4. Daniel Deronda, Impressions of Theophrastus such, and the emergence of imperialism.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of both Eliot's fiction and her situation within Victorian culture. Henry argues that Eliot's decision to represent the empire only as it infiltrated the imaginations and domestic lives of ; her characters illuminates the nature of her Realism. The book also re-examines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.