George Eliot

✍ Scribed by Kristin Brady (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Women Writers
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Constructing the Man-Woman: George Eliot as Icon....Pages 1-24
Woman Writing: George Eliot’s Life....Pages 24-58
Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede: Fictions of Female Sacrifice....Pages 59-93
The Mill on the Floss to Silas Marner: Fictions of Desire for the Lost Mother....Pages 94-118
Romola to The Spanish Gypsy: Fictions of Gender and History....Pages 119-151
Poetry and the Late Novels: Fictions of Diffused Desire....Pages 152-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-209

✦ Subjects

Politics of the Welfare State; Literature, general; Gender Studies; Fiction; Feminism; Nineteenth-Century Literature