In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of En

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the

Gathers 14 of Gordon S. Haight's essays on the life and work of Victorian authors and artists, among them George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, Char

George Eliot's literary achievement is explored through essays on its historical, intellectual, political and social contexts.