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University of Minnesota Press
- Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation
- Book
- 1987
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Theory and History of Literature
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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.
“…Daniel Cottom has produced a readable, well-researched, and thoroughly referenced work that speaks to a broad scholarly audience composed of philosophers, psychologists, sociolinguists, literary critics, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, to name but a few.” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
“…Daniel Cottom has produced a readable, well-researched, and thoroughly referenced work that speaks to a broad scholarly audience composed of philosophers, psychologists, sociolinguists, literary critics, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, to name but a few.” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxv-xxvi
- 4. Genteel Image and Democratic Example
- pp. 83-102
- 5. Imperfection and Compensation
- pp. 103-124
- 6. Realism and Romance
- pp. 125-140
- 8. Private Fragments and Public Monuments
- pp. 161-182
- 9. Domesticity and Teratology
- pp. 183-200
- Conclusion: Reproduction/Quotation/Criticism
- pp. 201-220
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816682508
Related ISBN(s)
9780816615483
MARC Record
OCLC
227038290
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No