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The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans : George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction
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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, includin...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Rosemarie Bodenheimer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 295 p. :) ill.
- ISBNs
- 9781501721021, 150172102X, 0801481848, 0801429889
- OCLC
- on1080549654, on1091657721
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.
- In English.
- 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
Subjects
- Self in literature.
- Letter writing -- History -- 19th century.
- English letters -- History and criticism.
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
- Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Autobiographical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
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