George Eliot

by Pauline Nestor

Book Overview

George Eliot was one of the great thinkers of her time, a figure central to the main currents of thought and belief in the nineteenth century. Yet when this distinguished public intellectual turned to fiction writing at the age of thirty-six, she regarded it not as a lesser pursuit, but as the distillation of all of her knowledge and ideas. For Eliot, fiction enabled the consideration of life 'in its highest complexity', and had the capacity not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333722019
• ISBN13: 9780333722015
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.5"