| George Eliot and the British Empire Contributor(s): Henry, Nancy (Author), Beer, Gillian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521027918 ISBN-13: 9780521027915 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $43.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book also reexamines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| Lexile Measure: 1570 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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Contributor Bio(s): Henry, Nancy: - Nancy Henry is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the editor of George Eliot's Impressions of Theophratus Such (1994), Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (1997), and Gaskell's Ruth. She is a contributor to both the Oxford Companion to George Eliot and The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2001). She has published widely on George Eliot, including essays in the Cambridge Companion to George Eliot and in Victorian Literature and Culture. |