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Author : Clair Colby Olson
Release : 1926
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Book Synopsis The Reflections of Nineteenth-century Scientific Thought in the Writings of George Eliot ... by : Clair Colby Olson
Download or read book The Reflections of Nineteenth-century Scientific Thought in the Writings of George Eliot ... written by Clair Colby Olson. This book was released on 1926. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally Shuttleworth
Release : 1987-03-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science by : Sally Shuttleworth
Download or read book George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science written by Sally Shuttleworth. This book was released on 1987-03-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.
Author : Michael Davis
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology by : Michael Davis
Download or read book George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology written by Michael Davis. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world. In showing the alignments between Eliot's work and the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, Davis reveals how Eliot responds both creatively and critically to contemporary theories of mind, as she explores such fundamental issues as the mind/body relationship, the mind in evolutionary theory, the significance of reason and emotion, and consciousness. Davis also points to important parallels between Eliot's work and new and future developments in psychology, particularly in the work of William James. In Middlemarch, for example, Eliot demonstrates more clearly than either Lewes or James the way the conscious self is shaped by language. Davis concludes by showing that the complexity of mind, which Eliot expresses through her imaginative use of scientific language, takes on a potentially theological significance. His book suggests a new trajectory for scholars exploring George Eliot's representations of the self in the context of science, society, and religious faith.
Author : Lois Gertrude Grigsby
Release : 1930
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Book Synopsis The Influence of the Changing Science and Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century on George Eliot by : Lois Gertrude Grigsby
Download or read book The Influence of the Changing Science and Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century on George Eliot written by Lois Gertrude Grigsby. This book was released on 1930. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Avrom Fleishman
Release : 2010-02-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis George Eliot's Intellectual Life by : Avrom Fleishman
Download or read book George Eliot's Intellectual Life written by Avrom Fleishman. This book was released on 2010-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography traces the course of that development from her initial Christian culture, through her loss of faith and working out of a humanistic and cautiously progressive world view, to the thought-provoking achievements of her novels. It focuses on her responses to her reading in her essays, reviews and letters as well as in the historical pictures of Romola, the political implications of Felix Holt, the comprehensive view of English society in Middlemarch, and the visionary account of personal inspiration in Daniel Deronda. This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important addition to our understanding of Eliot's mind and works, as well as of her place in nineteenth-century British culture.
