Avrom fleishman biography of barack

The figure of George Eliot has been a topic of some fascination to biographers.

Avrom fleishman biography of barack

It is easy to see why: in her relationship with George Henry Lewes, her translations of dense works of philosophy, and not least her justifiably famous novels, she appears as a social revolutionary, a noted intellectual, and perhaps above all as a great artist.

In the present book, Avrom Fleishmann sheds new light on Eliot. By focusing carefully on the history of her reading -- rather than on generalizations about the intellectual movements of her day, or on her personal relationships -- he generates a provocative series of readings of her works.

In his approach to Eliot, Fleishman challenges the tradition initiated by Gordon S. Haight, whose George Eliot: A Biography (1968) set the standard for subsequent Eliot biographies, and whose edition of Eliot's letters remains the primary critical source for such lives.

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