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George Eliot : the last Victorian

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  • "Chronicles the life of Victorian writer George Eliot, discussing why she was cast into social exile, how her literary success allowed her to overcome society's disapproval, and what events influenced her writings."
  • "This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern. An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes provides a truly nuanced view of Eliot, and is the first to grapple equally with the personal dramas that shaped her personality ' particularly her rejection by her brother Isaac ' and her social and intellectual context. Hughes shows how these elements together forged the themes of Eliot's work, her insistence that ideological interests be subordinated to the bonds between human beings ' a message that has keen resonance in our own time. With wit and sympathy Kathryn Hughes has written a wonderfully vivid account of Eliot's life that is both moving, stimulating and at times laugh-out-loud funny."

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"

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  • "George Eliot : the last victorian"
  • "George Eliot : the last Victorian"@en
  • "George Eliot : the last Victorian"
  • "George Eliot the last Victorian"
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