George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil': A Sequential and Contextual Reading

by Franco Marucci

Book Overview

The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil' amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in Eliot's major canon. The premise of the present book is that George Eliot's oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with variations, and that 'The Lifted Veil' functions as the linchpin of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032183608
• ISBN13: 9781032183602
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"