LEADER 03918oam 22006494c 450 001 9910789555303321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4742-1141-0 010 $a1-283-12273-1 010 $a9786613122735 010 $a1-4411-4813-2 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474211413 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093704 035 $a(EBL)711049 035 $a(OCoLC)730517927 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522868 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12195632 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522868 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539820 035 $a(PQKB)10044219 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC711049 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL711049 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472212 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL312273 035 $a(OCoLC)893335443 035 $a(OCoLC)1138649070 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257479 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093704 100 $a20070418d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeorge Eliot$ea critic's biography$fBarbara Hardy 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum $d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 225 0 $aWriters Lives 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-8515-4 311 $a0-8264-8516-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $aPreface and Acknowledgements -- References and Abbreviations -- An Outline of George Eliot's Life and Writings -- 1. Scenes of Family Life -- 2. Home, Travel and a Need for Foreignness -- 3. Three or Four Love Stories -- 4. Acquaintances and Friends -- 5. Illness and Death -- 6., Objects, Words and Metaphors -- Index -- 330 8 $a Not for publication: 'promises to present the distilled understanding and insight of Professor Hardy's lifetime engagement with George Eliot...strengths lie in the sensitive close reading that distinguishes Barbara Hardy's criticism and in the fascinating links and echoes between life and fiction that her comprehensive knowledge of the novelist's writing enables her to find...the proposed book would be accessible to a wide general readership and Barbara Hardy's established reputation would be a selling point in itself.' Readers report from John Rignall (Reader at University of Warwick and editor of The Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot) 'a genuinely interesting contribution to George Eliot scholarship by one of the leading postwar critics of Victorian fiction. The conception is bold and arresting... it reads excellently but its clarity is also vivid, effective and engaging. It wears its evident deep learning, and informed familiarity with Eliot's world, lightlya?It manages to integrate three achievements: to give an animated sense of Eliot's personality as a woman, an intellectual, and a writer; it evokes successfully the milieu in which she lived and worked; and it offers genuine illumination in relation to the fiction.' Professor Rick Rylance, Deputy Head of English Department, University of Exeter (and former Chair of Council for College and University English) Review of Thomas Hardy by NATFHE: 'The community of critics and readers interested in Victorian studies can always expect Barbara Hardy to come up with an interesting perspective on texts we all thought had been read thoroughly into familiaritya?The beauty of this book is also that a whole range of people could read it, from A level students to Hardy specialists.' 410 0$aWriters' lives (Continuum (Firm)) 606 $aNovelists, English$y19th century$vBiography 606 $2Biography: literary 615 0$aNovelists, English 676 $a823.8 700 $aHardy$b Barbara Nathan$0165572 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789555303321 996 $aGeorge Eliot$93831752 997 $aUNINA