James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
George Eliot: A Biography
Gordon S. Haight’s large-scale biography of George Eliot traces her life, works, publishing history, and intellectual circle through an enormous body of evidence. It has long been read as a foundational text for Victorian literary studies.
Work Information
It brings a writer’s life and fictional world into sharp relief through sheer scholarly depth.
Published in 1968, Gordon S. Haight’s George Eliot biography traces the writer’s life with precision, taking in letters, publication history, friendships, and intellectual context. It became the kind of standard achievement fitting a James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner.
Review Summaries
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Its abundance of evidence and vivid portrait of Eliot are widely valued, and it is still read as a standard biography for understanding her. For readers who want the life behind the work, it remains highly referential.
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Contemporary criticism also treated it as meticulously built biography and as work that helped lay the foundations for George Eliot scholarship.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1968-09-01
- Pages
- 632 pages
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780198116660
- ISBN-10
- 0198116667
- Price
- 19174 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Specific Groups/Women
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Reviews
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A very full and well documented book and readable too ...
A very full and well documented book and readable too.The author was chosento present her commemorative plaque to Poets Corner on the anniversary of her death so must be a true authority on a her fascinating life.
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Essential biography
Splendid biography not to be missed by anyone who admires the works of George Eliot, one of the greatest authors of her period who had the guts to stand up against British anti-semitism.
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George Eliot--a woman
Why did Mary Ann Evans write under the name of George Eliot? Her biography tells of a woman ahead of her times. She dared to be herself and tasted freedom for it.
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... with this boombought another on George Eliot’s life much better by Kathryn
Can’t get I with this boombought another on George Eliot’s life much better by Kathryn Hughes