Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The “Evangelical”: starting out in a Christian culture
- 2 The Apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos
- 3 The Journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview
- 4 The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers
- 5 The Novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking
- 6 The Historian: tracking ideals – utopian and national – in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy
- 7 The “Radical”: taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt
- 8 The Encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch
- 9 The Visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda
- 10 The Intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such
- Notes
- Works cited
- Name index
Name index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The “Evangelical”: starting out in a Christian culture
- 2 The Apostate: moving beyond the Christian mythos
- 3 The Journalist: editing, reviewing, shaping a worldview
- 4 The Germanist: balancing the counterweight of German thinkers
- 5 The Novelist: mixing realism, naturalism and mythmaking
- 6 The Historian: tracking ideals – utopian and national – in Romola and The Spanish Gypsy
- 7 The “Radical”: taking an anti-political stance in Felix Holt
- 8 The Encyclopedist: transcending the past in Middlemarch
- 9 The Visionary: transmitting ideals in Daniel Deronda
- 10 The Intellectual: cultural critique in Impressions of Theophrastus Such
- Notes
- Works cited
- Name index
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- George Eliot's Intellectual Life , pp. 292 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010