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Autore |
Cottom Daniel |
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Titolo |
Social figures : George Eliot, social history and literary representation / / Daniel Cottom ;foreword by Terry Eagleton |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1987 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Collana |
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Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 44 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social history in literature |
Social problems in literature |
Literature and society - England |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. ""George Eliot"" and the Fables of the Liberal Intellectual; 2. Education and the Transfigurations of Realism; 3. Literary Consciousness and the Vacancy of the Individual; 4. Genteel Image and Democratic Example; 5. Imperfection and Compensation; 6. Realism and Romance; 7. The Supervision of Art and the Culture of the Sickroom; 8. Private Fragments and Public Monuments; 9. Domesticity and Teratology; Conclusion: Reproduction/Quotation/Criticism; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual as exempli?ed in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers. |
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