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George Eliot's Pulse Hardback - 2003 - 1st Edition

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Author: Hertz, Neil
ISBN: 9780804743891

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Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her "not simply to be, but to utter."
Pursuing oddities of diction and figuration, of plotting and characterization, Hertz finds everywhere in Eliot's works passages of high mimetic realism that ask to be read as allegories of writing or as characters whose actions and destinies can only be understood if they are seen as disguised surrogates of their author. Each essay begins with an intriguing or problematic bit of language, then moves about within a particular work of fiction or criss-cross to other writings of Eliot's as well as to works by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.

Details

Title George Eliot's Pulse
Author Neil Hertz
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 192
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Stanford University Press
Publication date 2003-03-05
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated
ISBN 9780804743891 / 0804743894
Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
Dimensions 8.94 x 5.78 x 0.69 in (22.71 x 14.68 x 1.75 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Eliot, George - Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature - England - History -
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002153047
Dewey Decimal Code 821.8

About the author

Neil Hertz is Professor of Humanities and English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime.

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