Vocation and Desire George Eliot's Heroines |
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| Author:
| Barrett, Dorothea |
| Series title: | Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-138-18222-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $48.95 |
Book Description:
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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. Barrett's study
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. Barrett's study