Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings Eliot George
Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings Eliot George The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the…
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Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings Eliot George
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda.
Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of