The Biography of a Novelist
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Köp båda 2 för 483 krRosemarie Bodenheimer, Victorian Studies Davis comes as close as one could to imagining that mysterious process through which a living historical person becomes a writing voice on a page. Anyone who knows what it means to write for her life will honor his achievement.
W. Baker, Choice The strength of Davis's superbly written work of "the great transmitter," as he calls her, lies in the readings of the fiction and discussion of the impact of George Lewes's work on Eliot ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Paul Delany, Los Angeles Review of Books The Transferred Life of George Eliot makes its case with impressive force and eloquence. In doing so, it leaves aside many of the standard elements of a biography: an orderly sequence of life-events, financial affairs, contacts with other cultural figures, and so forth. Davis's narrative sticks to Eliot's emotional and intellectual development, as revealed in her fiction and letters. It presents Eliot's life as the heroic overcoming of the multiple oppressions inflicted on a brilliant but awkward and misunderstood provincial girl.
John Rignall, George Eliot Review: Journal of the George Eliot Fellowship There have been several good new biographies of George Eliot in recent years but none quite like this... Davis has a magisterial command of all her writing.
Rohan Maitzen, Times Literary Supplement A dense and revelatory study.
Salley Vickers, The Observer Thoughtful and searching account of the writer we know as George Eliot, Philip Davis undertakes a project of which his subject would have approved... acute on the psychology of the novels, both in their content and on their connection to their authors life.
John Mullan, The Guardian Davis's book is a celebration of her "realism", which allows us to see minutely the differences in consciousness of different characters - before we return to our sole selves.
Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times Anyone who has read and loved Middlemarch will appreciate Davis's devotion to his subject
Patricia Duncker, Literary Review How many books of erudite, intellectual biography and closely argued literary criticism can ever be described as an enthralling, lucid, page-turning read? ... Philip Davis is the searching, perceptive critic this great novelist deserves.
On: Yorkshire Magazine I came away from his book more full of admiration and awe for his subject matter than ever before.
Philip Davis is the author of The Victorians 1830-1880, volume 8 in the Oxford English Literary History Series, and a companion volume on Why Victorian Literature Still Matters. He has written on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, the literary uses of memory from Wordsworth to Lawrence, and various books on reading. He is general editor of OUP's new paperback series The Literary Agenda on the role of literature in the world of the 21st century. His previous literary biography was a life of Bernard Malamud. He is editor of The Reader magazine, the written voice of the outreach organisation The Reader.
Introduction 1: Family Likenesses 1819-1842 2: The Valley of Humiliation: The Single Woman 1840-51 3: Three Translations 4: The Two Loves of 1852: 1. Herbert Spencer 5: The Two Loves of 1852: 2. George Henry Lewes 6: 'The first time': Scenes of Clerical Life 7: Adam Bede: Crisis and Force Fields 8: The Mill on the Floss: 'My problems are purely psychical': Psychology and the Levels of Thought 9: 'Great Facts Have Struggled To Find A Voice': the 1860s Middle-Age 10: Middlemarch: Realism and Thoughtworld 11: Daniel Deronda: the Great Transmitter and the Last Experiment