| Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings Contributor(s): Eliot, George (Author), Byatt, A. S. (Editor), Warren, Nicholas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0140431489 ISBN-13: 9780140431483 Publisher: Penguin Group OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2006 Annotation: The works assembled here introduce George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts from her poems, and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe, and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most rewarding of writers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 824.8 |
| Series: Penguin Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.12" W x 7.78" (0.83 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers. |