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1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Frequently Cited Works -- Preface -- One. On Reading Letters -- Two. Constructing the Reader -- Three. Mary Ann Evans's Holy War -- Four. The Labor of Choice -- Five. The Outing of George Eliot -- Six. Ambition and Womanhood -- Seven. George Eliot's Stepsons -- Eight. Old and Young -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index |
| Subject |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
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| SUBJECT |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. fast (OCoLC)fst00034497 |
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Women novelists, English -- Correspondence -- History and criticism
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Autobiographical fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography
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Letter writing -- History
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Self in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Autobiographical fiction, English.
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Letter writing.
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Self in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Women novelists, English.
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England.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
94010513 |
| ISBN |
9781501721021 |
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150172102X |
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