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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Voskuil, Lynn
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.233-246

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To characterize George Eliot “among her contemporaries” is a dauntingly ambitious task for an expansive book because the scope of Eliot's intellectual and literary circles was enormous. As her remarkable letters demonstrate, she was a convivial person who sought an active social life and delighted in her friends. Yet she did indeed live her life “apart” from her contemporaries in consequential ways, her scandalous but carefully considered elopement with the married Lewes only the most obvious in a series of episodes that continue to defy precise categorization in Victorian terms. Throughout her life, Eliot formed friendships and professional relationships, developed crushes and romantic attachments, and most significantly wrote her novels conditioned by a sense of isolation that was at once emotional, intellectual, cultural, and aesthetic.