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    Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings

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    ISBN: 9780140431483
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    AuthorEliot, George
    Pub Date27/09/1990
    Binding7
    Pages544
    Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
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    Offers a general introduction to George Eliot's work as an essayist, translator and poet. Divided into four sections, the book includes book reviews, major long essays written for a magazine, shorter pieces containing many of her ideas and some later essays from her last published book.

    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. 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. 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. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.