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University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
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
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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
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. ""George Eliot"" and the Fables of the Liberal Intellectual; 2. Education and the Transfigurations of Realism; 3. Literary Consciousness and the Vacancy of the Individual; 4. Genteel Image and Democratic Example; 5. Imperfection and Compensation; 6. Realism and Romance; 7. The Supervision of Art and the Culture of the Sickroom; 8. Private Fragments and Public Monuments; 9. Domesticity and Teratology; Conclusion: Reproduction/Quotation/Criticism; Notes; Index