Lifted Veil: Brother Jacob

Name: Lifted Veil: Brother Jacob
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ISBN: 9780199555055

ISBN-10: 0199555052

ISBN-13: 9780199555055

Edition: 2009

Authors: George Eliot, Helen Small

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`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology and experiments in revification it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philsophy - the ideal of imaginative sympathyor the ability to see into others' minds and emotions. Narrated by an egoccentric, morbid young clairvoyant man whose fascination for Bertha Grant lies partly in her obliquity, the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self, as…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.68" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English