George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation

by Alan Mintz

Book Overview

Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674348737
• ISBN13: 9780674348738
• Release Date: May 1978
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"