About this book
Introduction
This book explores the interrelations between communal memory and the sense of history in George Eliot's novels by focusing on issues such as memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, memory and time, and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories. Hao Li offers a fresh critical reading informed by major nineteenth-century theories and argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of the dialects of memory and history, an understanding that both integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time.
Keywords
argue consciousness edition George Eliot history history of literature interaction John Stuart Mill memory novel oblivion religion Romanticism time understanding
Bibliographic information
- Book Title Memory and History in George Eliot
- Book Subtitle Transfiguring the Past
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Authors
Hao Li
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598607
- Copyright Information Hao Li 2000
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
- Hardcover ISBN 978-0-333-67595-3
- Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-39947-5
- eBook ISBN 978-0-230-59860-7
- Edition Number 1
- Number of Pages XIII, 227
- Number of Illustrations 0 b/w illustrations, 0 illustrations in colour
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Topics
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Fiction
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Reviews
'On the one hand a closely and elegantly written critique of all her novels, Hao Li's book on the other hand weaves its way suggestively and stimulatingly through many examples of Victorian thought, British and European.' - Rosemary Ashton, Professor of English, University College, London