George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance

Name: George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance
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ISBN: 9780195086577

ISBN-10: 0195086570

ISBN-13: 9780195086577

Edition: 1994

Authors: Bernard Semmel

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In this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores George Eliot's use of the plot of inheritance in her novels. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and a study of the intellectual currents of the time, Semmel demonstrates that her feelings toward inheritance provided the central ideas in her novels. Semmel argues that Eliot wrote of inheritance both in the common meaning of the term, as in the transfer of goods and property from parents to children, and in the more metaphoric sense of the inheritance of both the benefits and burdens of the historical past, particularly those of thenation's culture and traditions. He believes Eliot's novels…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.13" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Prologue



The Myth of the Disinherited One



Free Will and the Politics of Inheritance



The Positivist Novel



Positivism and the Politics of Compromise in Middlemarch



The Disinherited Races


Epilogue


Notes


Index