George Eliot, author of "Middlemarch", Adam Bede", "Silas Marner", "Felix Holt" and "Mill on the Floss" was the greatest literary heroine of the 19th century. At the peak of her career she was one of the three most famous women in Victorian England. This book draws upon Eliot's previously unpublished letters to create a revised portrait of her both as a woman and as an artist. The author examines the Victorian contradictions she faced as an intellect, a sensitive individual and a plain woman, rejecting the view of previous biographers that she depended on men. Rather, he sees each of her unusual relationships - with Charles Bray, John Chapman, Herbert Spencer and finally with the married Lewes - as a form of absorption of their place in the masculine world that was denied to her directly.

George Eliot a Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Karl, Frederick R.

Community & Culture

W. W. Norton & Company; Incorporated

This comprehensive, critical analysis of American novels of the past four decades interprets and evaluates a wide range of writers and works of what Karl views as the first sustained period of "American Modernism"

American Fictions 1940/1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation

Harpercollins

The Naked I: Fictions for the 70s

R. Karl & Leo Hamalian, Frederick

Literature & Fiction

Pan/Macmillan

Surveys the works of selected novelists whose style and techniques have contributed to the development of modern English fiction

A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel

British & Irish

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Describes Mary Anne Evans's childhood in nineteenth century Coventry, her lifelong resistance to enforced women's roles, intellectual prowess, elopement with George Henry Lewes, and literary successes.

George Eliot: Voice of a Century : A Biography

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Karl shows how Eliot's break from respectable womanhood by running off with the married George Henry Lewes allowed her to begin her career as the major British novelist of the nineteenth century. Often, she drew upon her own life to create her plots and characters. She set several of her masterworks - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, and Middlemarch - in the England of the past and her youth to show a complex portrait of society and character - one that captures us today with its moral dilemmas and psychological shrewdness. Frederick R. Karl's magisterial biography of George Eliot proves her to be one of the most fascinating and iconic individuals of her time. Born in 1819 as Mary Anne Evans, she grew up near rural Coventry when the pastoral life was being destroyed by the rapid rise of industrialism. Her father, Robert Evans, took care of an estate, where the family lived. Eliot, his youngest child, absorbed the world around her, its beauty and its delicate sense of stability, which was about to be thoroughly disrupted. Eliot thrived on learning while she stayed home, taking care of her aging father. Upon his death, she began her long process of emergence and change. Her unusual intelligence and literary capacity brought her to the attention of John Chapman, who enlisted her to work on the intellectual Westminster Review in London. While there she met some of the leading thinkers of her era, including Herbert Spencer. Karl focuses on her relationships with these men in a way earlier biographers have been unable, using many letters and documents previously unavailable.

George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography

Arts & Literature

W.W.Norton&Company

In this book, the author shows that English novelists in the 18th century took an adversary position towards their society, challenging its assumptions, testing out its attitudes, probing its weaknesses. Professor Karl's thorough, original and illuminating book examines fist Don Quixote, the archetypal novel, and then each of the great novelists of the period: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne. he also discusses the novel which diverged from the mainstream of English fiction, like the Gothic novel and the novel of sentiment. He concludes with a chapter on the development of technique in the 18th century novel.

A Reader's Guide to the Development of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century (Readers Guides)

Thames and Hudson Ltd.

Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays.

William Faulkner: American Writer A Biography

World Literature

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

George Eliot: A Biography

Diane Pub Co.

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