Making Up Society: The Novels of George Eliot

by Philip Fisher

Book Overview

Fisher places the work of George Eliot within the great evolution that constitutes the nineteenth-century English novel. He reports not only about her work, but about an evolving complex literary form. Fisher examines Eliot s work as responding to \u201cthe loss of society, \u201d the breakdown between public life and individua moral history. As trust in the community as a base of moral life weakens, decisive changes occur: the English novel accommodated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822985543
• ISBN13: 9780822985549
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"