02664nam 2200661Ia 450 991081308920332120200520144314.00-8166-8250-X9780816615476(CKB)1000000000347254(EBL)310184(OCoLC)171126499(SSID)ssj0000284258(PQKBManifestationID)11257204(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284258(PQKBWorkID)10261359(PQKB)11371726(MiAaPQ)EBC310184(OCoLC)227038290(MdBmJHUP)muse39863(Au-PeEL)EBL310184(CaPaEBR)ebr10151110(CaONFJC)MIL523462(OCoLC)935263700(EXLCZ)99100000000034725419860804d1987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSocial figures George Eliot, social history and literary representation /Daniel Cottom ;foreword by Terry Eagleton1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19871 online resource (270 p.)Theory and history of literature ;v. 44Includes index.0-8166-1548-9 0-8166-1547-0 Includes bibliography and index.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; IndexCenters 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.Theory and history of literature ;v. 44.Social history in literatureSocial problems in literatureLiterature and societyEnglandSocial history in literature.Social problems in literature.Literature and society823/.8Cottom Daniel678696MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813089203321Social figures4105279UNINA