Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines

by Dorothea Barrett

First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist and sybil. Vocation and Desire questions that image, and finds in her work elements of anger, feminism, subversiveness, revenge, iconoclasm, wit, and eroticism - elements that we have been taught not to expect. After looking at the development of the sybilline image and the gradual eclipse of the subversive George Eliot - which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138182192
• ISBN13: 9781138182196
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"