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George Eliot and the British Empire

By Nancy Henry

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521808456, 9780521808453, 9780511014369
LCC
PR4692.I46 H46 2002
Open Library ID
OL3948416M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
941 kB (963519 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Pages
198\198
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book also reexamines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.

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