George Eliot : a critical study of her life, writings and philosophy
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George Eliot : a critical study of her life, writings and philosophy
（Cambridge library collection, Literary studies）
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington , 1883
Bibliography: p. 425-434
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
American Unitarian minister George Willis Cooke (1848-1923) worked for almost thirty years in Unitarian churches across the United States before turning full-time to scholarly pursuits in 1900. Cooke, a voracious reader who was largely self-taught, attended Meadville Theological School in Illinois but never graduated. A radical in theology and politics, he was drawn to the transcendentalist authors and in 1881 published a critical study of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cooke's George Eliot: A Critical Study of her Life, Writings and Philosophy (1883) probably emerged from those same philosophical impulses. The book was published just after Blind's biography, but Cooke asserts that with a small exception his work was complete when hers appeared; moreover, his study prioritises the act of 'interpreting and criticising [Eliot's] teachings' over the details of her life, and the book's organisation reflects this hierarchy, giving insights into the contemporary reception of George Eliot.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Early life
- 2. Translator and editor
- 3. Marriage
- 4. Career as an author
- 5. Personal characteristics
- 6. Literary traits and tendencies
- 7. Theory of the novel
- 8. Poetic methods
- 9. Philosophic attitude
- 10. Distinctive teachings
- 11. Religious tendencies
- 12. Ethical spirit
- 13. Earlier novels
- 14. Romola
- 15. Felix Holt and Middlemarch
- 16. Daniel Deronda
- 17. The Spanish Gypsy and other poems
- 18. Later essays
- 19. The analytic method
- 20. The limitations of her thought
- 21. Bibliography
- Index.
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