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Memory and History in George Eliot: Transfiguring the Past

By Hao Li (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2000
ISBN
978-1-349-39947-5, 978-0-230-59860-7, 978-0-312-22834-7
DOI
10.1057/9780230598607
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
817 kB (836700 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIII, 227\240
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Nineteenth-Century Literature; Fiction

Description

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.

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