George Eliot And Her World
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Few figures in Victorian literature cast as long a shadow as Mary Ann Evans — known to the world by her male pen name, George Eliot — whose unflinching moral vision and psychological depth transformed the English novel. Marghanita Laski's George Eliot and Her World presents a richly illustrated biographical portrait of one of Britain's greatest literary minds, tracing her life from a modest Warwickshire upbringing through her audacious intellectual ascent in the drawing rooms and publishing circles of Victorian London. Laski chronicles Eliot's passionate, unconventional relationships, her crisis of religious faith, and the remarkable courage it took to publish works of such radical empathy as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss under the constraints of a deeply patriarchal society. Laski writes with the precision of a scholar and the warmth of a fellow admirer, situating Eliot within the broader cultural and intellectual currents of the nineteenth century — from the philosophical upheavals of positivism to the dawn of realist fiction. The book illustrates how Eliot's life and art were inseparable, each informing and deepening the other in ways that continue to resonate with readers today. For anyone who has ever been moved by the moral seriousness of Middlemarch or the quiet tragedy of Silas Marner, this volume poses an irresistible question: how much of George Eliot was Mary Ann Evans, and how much was the world she so bravely remade?
Author: Marghanita Laski
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few figures in Victorian literature cast as long a shadow as Mary Ann Evans — known to the world by her male pen name, George Eliot — whose unflinching moral vision and psychological depth transformed the English novel. Marghanita Laski's George Eliot and Her World presents a richly illustrated biographical portrait of one of Britain's greatest literary minds, tracing her life from a modest Warwickshire upbringing through her audacious intellectual ascent in the drawing rooms and publishing circles of Victorian London. Laski chronicles Eliot's passionate, unconventional relationships, her crisis of religious faith, and the remarkable courage it took to publish works of such radical empathy as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss under the constraints of a deeply patriarchal society. Laski writes with the precision of a scholar and the warmth of a fellow admirer, situating Eliot within the broader cultural and intellectual currents of the nineteenth century — from the philosophical upheavals of positivism to the dawn of realist fiction. The book illustrates how Eliot's life and art were inseparable, each informing and deepening the other in ways that continue to resonate with readers today. For anyone who has ever been moved by the moral seriousness of Middlemarch or the quiet tragedy of Silas Marner, this volume poses an irresistible question: how much of George Eliot was Mary Ann Evans, and how much was the world she so bravely remade?