George Eliot S Feminism
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George Eliot And Herbert Spencer
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Author : Nancy L. Paxton
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
George Eliot And Herbert Spencer written by Nancy L. Paxton and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of early Victorian feminism when they met in 1851. Paxton surveys all of Spencer's writing to show when and why he repudiated his early feminism and demonstrates Eliot's determined resistance to the most conservative tendencies of evolutionary theory in her representation of female sexuality, motherhood, feminist ambition, and desire. In comparing Eliot's and Spencer's evolutionary "reconstruction of gender," the book draws on a wide variety of biographical, literary, and critical texts and on interdisciplinary scholarship about the relation between scientific and literary discourse in the nineteenth century. By thus reassessing Eliot's contribution to feminist thought, it presents a revolutionary reading of her novels which is informed by contemporary feminist criticism and the new historicism. "This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. This work shows how truly current Eliot's novels are, no matter what their setting."--Barry Qualls, Rutgers University Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
George Eliot S Feminism
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Author : June Szirotny
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-04-14
George Eliot S Feminism written by June Szirotny and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of contemporary feminists, that George Eliot was more radical and more feminist than commonly thought.
Vocation And Desire
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Author : Dorothea Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-25
Vocation And Desire written by Dorothea Barrett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist and sybil. Vocation and Desire questions that image, and finds in her work elements of anger, feminism, subversiveness, revenge, iconoclasm, wit, and eroticism – elements that we have been taught not to expect. After looking at the development of the sybilline image and the gradual eclipse of the subversive George Eliot – which Eliot herself initiated – Dorothea Barrett goes on to investigate the evidence of the novels themselves and finds an alternative emphasis. Her study of the heroines of the six major novels and issues of language and desire provides a refreshing and acute analysis of the contradictions and strengths of Eliot’s work. She also considers the reception of George Eliot by feminist critics and the broader implications of her work for contemporary feminism. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
George Eliot
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Author : Kristin Brady
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 1992
George Eliot written by Kristin Brady and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
All the books in this series are written by women in a feminist critique style. This work deals with the writings of George Eliot.
Greatness Engendered
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Author : Alison Booth
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Greatness Engendered written by Alison Booth and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the possibility of feminine greatness. Examining the achievements of Eliot and Woolf in their social contexts, she provides a challenging model of feminist historical criticism.
George Eliot And The Woman Question
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Author : Gillian Beer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-30
George Eliot And The Woman Question written by Gillian Beer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is an enlarged edition of Professor Beer's volume on George Eliot which initially appeared in the `Key Women Writers' series issued by The Harvester Press. It was widely welcomed. Elaine Showalter, Professor of English, Princeton University said of it that "I feel convinced that the book will become one of the very few essential sources for all serious readers of George Eliot, whether or not they call themselves feminists."
Barbara Bodichon George Eliot And The Limits Of Feminism
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Author : Muriel Clara Bradbrook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Barbara Bodichon George Eliot And The Limits Of Feminism written by Muriel Clara Bradbrook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
George Eliot Adam Bede The Mill On The Floss Middlemarch
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Author : Lucie Armitt
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave
Release Date : 2000-04-01
George Eliot Adam Bede The Mill On The Floss Middlemarch written by Lucie Armitt and has been published by Palgrave this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-01 with Art categories.
George Eliot's reception as a writer has been chequered from the start. Prejudice followed the reluctant revelation of her real identity as a woman, and she suffered from critical neglect at the start of the twentieth century, before a post-war renaissance of interest finally established her as one of the most powerful and accomplished of British novelists. Views of Mary Ann Evans, the woman behind the pseudonym, have always been controversial: castigated during her own time for sexual impropriety with a married man, accused by male 'friends' of being an overly intellectual 'man-woman', rejected by twentieth-century feminists for the opinions expressed in her essay 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists', she is a figure for our own times as much as for her own. Focusing on three of Eliot's most influential and widely-read 'Midlands' novels, Lucie Armitt traces the effect of recent critical interpretations upon the reception and teaching of Eliot's work, as well as revisiting some of the perspectives offered by original reviewers and early critics. Class, gender and ideology all come under scrutiny, as do Eliot's central fictive themes of currency, circulation, sensuality and the voice. A variety of theoretical positions are reflected in the material selected for discussion, including post-structuralism, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis. Clear explication of these discourses is offered, combined with informative and detailed readings of primary extracts as illustrations.
Ambivalent Feminism
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Author : Ilona Dobosiewicz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Ambivalent Feminism written by Ilona Dobosiewicz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Feminism in literature categories.
George Eliot
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Author : Brian Spittles
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1993-01-01
George Eliot written by Brian Spittles and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
"By quoting extensively from George Eliot's own writings - all the novels, letters, essays, poetry - and from contemporary Victorian sources - feminist journals and tracts, novels by other female writers, newspapers, magazines, speeches, poetry, scientific theories - this book allows the age to present its own dynamic self-portrait." "The conflicts illustrated by that picture are also central to Eliot's work, and no understanding of either the society or the novels can be achieved without an appreciation of the other. Sexual conduct as actually practised challenged the notions of conventional morality; the oppression and deprivation of women ran counter to the spirit of increasing democracy; class war threatened political stability; financial greed and the demands of an expanding economy confronted Christian ethics and the idea of a just society; the need for religious faith appeared to be undermined by new scientific thinking." "As this clearly written and lucidly argued book shows George Eliot's novels deal with all these enduring personal and social problems. Both Eliot and the society in which she lived emerge from this investigation as complex but irresistibly fascinating subjects with a relevance for all time."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved