The Transferred Life of George Eliot

by Philip Davis and Philip Davis

Book Overview

Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as like the feeling of entering the confessional in which the novelist sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology--'that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of George Eliot goes beyond the much-told story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199577374
• ISBN13: 9780199577378
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"