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  1. George Eliot and the politics of national inheritance
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195085671; 0195086570; 1280527188; 1429405848; 9780195085679; 9780195086577; 9781280527180; 9781429405843
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Conservatisme; Politique et littérature / Grande-Bretagne / Histoire / 19e siècle; Politique-fiction anglaise / Histoire et critique; Anglais dans la littérature; National characteristics, English, in literature; Political and social views; Political fiction, English; Politics and literature; Geschichte; Politics and literature; Political fiction, English; National characteristics, English, in literature; Kulturerbe <Motiv>; Kulturerbe; Politisches Denken; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Eliot, George / 1819-1880 / Political and social views; Eliot, George / 1819-1880 / Pensée politique et sociale; Eliot, George / 1819-1880; Eliot, George (1819-1880); Eliot, George (1819-1880)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-161) and index

    In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores George Eliot's use of the plot of inheritance in her novels. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and a study of the intellectual currents of the time, Semmel demonstrates that her feelings toward inheritance provided the central ideas in her novels. Semmel argues that Eliot wrote of inheritance both in the common meaning of the term, as in the transfer of goods and property from parents to children, and in the more metaphoric sense of the inheritance of both the benefits and burdens of the historical past, particularly those of the nation's culture and traditions. He believes Eliot's novels centered so strongly around the idea of inheritance because she viewed herself as intellectually "disinherited": she was writing at a time when society was transforming itself from a traditional to a modern one, and she was estranged from her father and brother.; In this in-depth study, Semmel dissects the politics of many of Eliot's novels, including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, and convincingly demonstrates Eliot's variations on the plot of inheritance and her acceptance of the reform processes in Britain's political life. All those interested in Victorian literature, history, and political thought will appreciate Semmel's George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance

    1. The Myth of the Disinherited One -- 2. Free Will and the Politics of Inheritance -- 3. The Positivist Novel -- 4. Positivism and the Politics of Compromise in Middlemarch -- 5. The Disinherited Races

  2. George Eliot and the politics of national inheritance
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    The study examines Eliot's use of the theme of inheritance as a metaphor for politics - linking generations in the kindred family and providing bonds of sympathy for the wider family of the nation. It describes the stress of Eliot's novels on the... more

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    The study examines Eliot's use of the theme of inheritance as a metaphor for politics - linking generations in the kindred family and providing bonds of sympathy for the wider family of the nation. It describes the stress of Eliot's novels on the political traditions and culture of the nation

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195086570; 0195085671; 9780195086577
    Subjects: National characteristics, English, in literature; Political fiction, English; Politics and literature; Eliot, George ; 1819-1880 ; Political and social views; National characteristics, English, in literature; Political fiction, English ; History and criticism; Politics and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century; Electronic books
    Other subjects: Eliot, George (1819-1880)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (168 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-161) and index

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    Contents; Prologue; 1. The Myth of the Disinherited One; 2. Free Will and the Politics of Inheritance; 3. The Positivist Novel; 4. Positivism and the Politics of Compromise in Middlemarch; 5. The Disinherited Races; Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z