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The Transferred life of George Eliot : the biography of a novelist / Philip Davis

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Davis, Philip (Philip Maurice)
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (445 pages)
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Contents
Cover; The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Plates; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Family Likenesses, 1819-42; Mother and Father; Sister and Brother; The Father and the Faith; Chapter 2: The Valley of Humiliation: The Single Woman, 1840-51; The Need to Utter and to Think; The Need for Adult Love; `What Shall I Be Without My Father?;́ Chapter 3: Three Translations; The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined; The Essence of Christianity; Spinozaś Ethics., Chapter 4: The Two Loves of 1852: 1. Herbert SpencerChapter 5: The Two Loves of 1852: 2. George Henry Lewes; Chapter 6: `The first time ́in the `new era:́ Scenes of Clerical Life, 1856-7; Three Scenes; A First Reader and the Fourth Scene; Chapter 7: Adam Bede: `The Other Side of the Commonplace, ́ 1857-9; An Experiment in Life; Force Fields; Chapter 8: The Mill on the Floss: `My problems are purely psychical, ́ 1859-60: Psychology and the Levels of Thought; Another Reader: F.W.H. Myers; Chapter 9: `Great Facts Have Struggled to Find a Voice:́ The Toll of the 1860s., and Chapter 10Chapter 11; The End; Select Bibliography; Index.
Summary
This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist. Philip Davis enables you not only to see through George Eliot's eyes, but also feel what it is like to be seen by her, in the imaginative involvement of her readers with her characters.
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ISBN
9780192535474 (electronic bk.)
0192535471 (electronic bk.)
9780199577378
0199577374
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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