LEADER 03667nam 22006852 450 001 9910828957003321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a0-511-84936-2 010 $a1-107-20330-9 010 $a1-283-33134-9 010 $a9786613331342 010 $a0-511-68962-4 010 $a0-511-69222-6 010 $a0-511-69110-6 010 $a0-511-69036-3 010 $a0-511-69170-X 010 $a0-511-68887-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000009910 035 $a(EBL)501401 035 $a(OCoLC)642661134 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000418557 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11267804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000418557 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10370605 035 $a(PQKB)11298119 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511691706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC501401 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL501401 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10395483 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL333134 035 $a(PPN)238394298 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000009910 100 $a20100219d2010|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGeorge Eliot's intellectual life /$fAvrom Fleishman$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 296 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-40266-2 311 $a0-521-11736-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 282-291) and index. 327 $aThe "evangelical" : starting out in a Christian culture -- The apostate : moving beyond the Christian mythos -- The journalist : editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview -- The Germanist : balancing the counterweight of German thinkers -- The novelist : mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking -- The historian : tracking ideals -- utopian and national -- in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy -- The "radical" : taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt -- The encyclopaedist : transcending the past in Middlemarch -- The visionary : transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda -- The intellectual : cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such. 330 $aIt is well known that George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography traces the course of that development from her initial Christian culture, through her loss of faith and working out of a humanistic and cautiously progressive world view, to the thought-provoking achievements of her novels. It focuses on her responses to her reading in her essays, reviews and letters as well as in the historical pictures of Romola, the political implications of Felix Holt, the comprehensive view of English society in Middlemarch, and the visionary account of personal inspiration in Daniel Deronda. This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important addition to our understanding of Eliot's mind and works, as well as of her place in nineteenth-century British culture. 606 $aNovelists, English$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aIntellectuals$zGreat Britain$vBiography 615 0$aNovelists, English 615 0$aIntellectuals 676 $a823/.8 676 $aB 700 $aFleishman$b Avrom$0191534 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828957003321 996 $aGeorge Eliot's intellectual life$94057122 997 $aUNINA