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The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans : George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction / Rosemarie Bodenheimer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (316 p.) : 7 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501721021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8 B
LOC classification:
  • PR4681 .B57 1994
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Frequently Cited Works -- Preface -- One. On Reading Letters -- Two. Constructing the Reader -- Three. Mary Ann Evans's Holy War -- Four. The Labor of Choice -- Five. The Outing of George Eliot -- Six. Ambition and Womanhood -- Seven. George Eliot's Stepsons -- Eight. Old and Young -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Frequently Cited Works -- Preface -- One. On Reading Letters -- Two. Constructing the Reader -- Three. Mary Ann Evans's Holy War -- Four. The Labor of Choice -- Five. The Outing of George Eliot -- Six. Ambition and Womanhood -- Seven. George Eliot's Stepsons -- Eight. Old and Young -- Notes -- Index

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Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style. Bodenheimer revisits pivotal episodes in Mary Ann Evans's life and career, including the "Holy War" through which she asserted her youthful religious skepticism; her decision to elope with the married writer George Henry Lewes; and her marriage with John Cross after Lewes's death. Bodenheimer also discusses the rumor campaign that led to the discovery that "George Eliot" was a woman, and she traces the trajectory of Eliot's impassioned conflict between her ambition and her womanhood.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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