George Eliot: Critical Assessments

by Stuart Hutchinson (Editor)

George Eliot has a central place in university courses on the novel, the Victorian Period, and Feminism. The radicalism of her co-habitation with George Lewes contrasts provocatively with the apparent moral conservatism with which she treats her fictional heroines, yet she pushes sexual politics beyond the domain of the personal into the public arena. This set follows the series format and Volume Overview, chronology of Eliot's life, full bibliographies of her works, and a section of responses from three leading writers, Dickens, Trollope, and Henry James. Volume Twentieth-century perspectives, with commentary by G.K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and many others. Volume Critical essays on individual works, ending with a section on her poetry. Volume Explores responses from 1970 to the present, including sections on 'Feminist Issues', and History, Politics, and Realism. _

1984 pages, Hardcover

First published June 4, 1996