Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation (Theory & History of Literature)

By Daniel Cottom

Book Overview

In Social Figures, Daniel Cottom maps the course of this bourgeois project. His analysis centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual, as exemplified in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816615470
• ISBN13: 9780816615476
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.