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George Eliot  
Author: Pauline Nestor
ISBN: 0333722019
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Review
"This useful and incisive book does an excellent job of introducing Eliot to readers unfamiliar with her work..."--S.F. Klepetar, Choice



Book Description
Covering all of George Eliot's novels, this book offers a challenging re-assessment of the writer's contribution to the critical debates of her own period and of our time. It examines Eliot's literary exploration of ethics, especially in relation to the negotiation of difference, and demonstrates that through a reading of the novels' complex and sophisticated drama of otherness, her work can be seen as freshly relevant to contemporary debates in feminism, post-colonial studies, psychoanalysis and moral philosophy.



About the Author
Pauline Nestor is Senior Lecturer in English, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.





George Eliot

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In this new study, Pauline Nestor offers a challenging reassessment of Eliot's contribution to the critical debates, both of her age and of our own era. In particular, she examines the author's literary exploration of ethics, especially in relation to the negotiation of difference. Nestor argues compellingly that, through a reading of their sophisticated drama of otherness, Eliot's novels can be seen as freshly relevant to contemporary theoretical debates in feminism, moral philosophy, post-colonial studies and psychoanalysis.

SYNOPSIS

Nester (English, Monash U., Australia) argues that British writer Eliot's (1819-80) fiction investigation fundamental ethical problems that transcend her own time and condition to speak to modern readers. Among her topics are the making of a novelist, self- refutation and the limits of subjectivity, in Adam Bede, the mystery of otherness in Silas Marner, and a politics of morality in Felix Holt. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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