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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827409503321

Autore

Barrett Dorothea <1955->

Titolo

Vocation and desire : George Eliot's heroines / / Dorothea Barrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-29490-4

1-317-29491-2

1-315-64640-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 pages)

Collana

Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot ; ; Volume 2

Disciplina

823/.8

823.8

Soggetti

Heroines in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1989 by Routledge.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The making and remaking of George Eliot -- 2. Reconstructing George Eliot -- 3. Hetty and Dinah : the battle for predominance in Adam Bede -- 4. Demonism, feminism, and incest in The mill on the floss -- 5. Romola : woman as history -- 6. Language and desire in Felix Holt -- 7. Dialectic and polyphony in Middlemarch -- 8. The open-endedness of Daniel Deronda -- 9. George Eliot and twentieth-century feminist perspectives.