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The works of George Eliot Impressions of theophrastus such Essays and poems by George Eliot - H.L. Burt Company, Publishers New York ND - 400 p.
I. Looking inward; II. Looking backward; III. How we encourage research; IV. A man surprised at his originality; V. A too deperential man; VI. Only Temper; VII. A political molecule; VIII. The watch-dog of knowledge; IX. A half-breed; X. debasing the moral currency; XI. The wasp credited with the honeycomb; XII. "So Young"; XIII. How we come to give ourselves fase testimonials, and believe in them; XIV. The too ready writer; XV. Diseases of small authorship; XVI. Moral swindelers; XVII. shadows of the coming race; XVIII. The modern hep! hep! hep!
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, published in 1879, marks the end of George Eliot's career and the end of her life with George Henry Lewes. In many ways this fable is a final testimony to her brilliance, and yet it is puzzling that it has traditionally been judged as inferior to her other works. It remains, on the contrary, a significant reflection of her earlier works and an experiment apart from them. As Nancy Henry points out in her comprehensive introduction, this book goes beyond even Daniel Deronda in positing the role of collective memory in the future of national cultures and the power of literary texts in creating and preserving both. It is a complex and deeply intelligent synthesis of Eliot's previous great works as well as an interesting departure from them. It signals the culmination of her development as a writer of organic form and the beginning of what could be termed an early modernist experimentation through fragmentation of form. In eight dexterous chapters, Theophrastus reflects on the habits of his contemporaries - on their tendency to romanticize past ages, the ruthless nature of scholarly debate, the mocking of traditionally revered works of the absurdity of decadence in art, and the justification for Jewish and other modern nationalisms. As the character of Theophrastus emerges and coheres, the mature and accomplished George Eliot asks what has become of nineteenth-century English culture while speculating on how it might adapt and survive.
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The works of George Eliot Impressions of theophrastus such Essays and poems by George Eliot - H.L. Burt Company, Publishers New York ND - 400 p.
I. Looking inward; II. Looking backward; III. How we encourage research; IV. A man surprised at his originality; V. A too deperential man; VI. Only Temper; VII. A political molecule; VIII. The watch-dog of knowledge; IX. A half-breed; X. debasing the moral currency; XI. The wasp credited with the honeycomb; XII. "So Young"; XIII. How we come to give ourselves fase testimonials, and believe in them; XIV. The too ready writer; XV. Diseases of small authorship; XVI. Moral swindelers; XVII. shadows of the coming race; XVIII. The modern hep! hep! hep!
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, published in 1879, marks the end of George Eliot's career and the end of her life with George Henry Lewes. In many ways this fable is a final testimony to her brilliance, and yet it is puzzling that it has traditionally been judged as inferior to her other works. It remains, on the contrary, a significant reflection of her earlier works and an experiment apart from them. As Nancy Henry points out in her comprehensive introduction, this book goes beyond even Daniel Deronda in positing the role of collective memory in the future of national cultures and the power of literary texts in creating and preserving both. It is a complex and deeply intelligent synthesis of Eliot's previous great works as well as an interesting departure from them. It signals the culmination of her development as a writer of organic form and the beginning of what could be termed an early modernist experimentation through fragmentation of form. In eight dexterous chapters, Theophrastus reflects on the habits of his contemporaries - on their tendency to romanticize past ages, the ruthless nature of scholarly debate, the mocking of traditionally revered works of the absurdity of decadence in art, and the justification for Jewish and other modern nationalisms. As the character of Theophrastus emerges and coheres, the mature and accomplished George Eliot asks what has become of nineteenth-century English culture while speculating on how it might adapt and survive.
England --Fiction
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