Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Social figures [[electronic resource] ] : George Eliot, social history and literary representation / / Daniel Cottom ;foreword by Terry Eagleton



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Cottom Daniel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Social figures [[electronic resource] ] : George Eliot, social history and literary representation / / Daniel Cottom ;foreword by Terry Eagleton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1987
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.8
Soggetto topico: Social history in literature
Social problems in literature
Literature and society - England
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Social figures  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-8250-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784486703321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 44.