The Novels of George Meredith
Author : Elmer James Bailey
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Elmer James Bailey
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : George Meredith
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : George Meredith
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : George Meredith
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Diane Johnson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681374463
A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.
Author : George Meredith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 1897
Category : England
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Author : Alice Crossley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317102126
Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless distinguishable from other masculine types. Important more as a stage of psychological awareness and maturation than as a period of biological youth, Crossley argues that the plasticity of male adolescence provides Meredith, Thackeray, and Trollope with opportunities for self-reflection and social criticism while also working as a paradigm for narrative and imaginative inquiry about motivation, egotism, emotional and physical relationships, and the possibilities of self-creation. Adolescence emerges as a crucial stage of individual growth, adopted by these authors in order to reflect more fully on cultural and personal anxieties about manliness. The centrality of male youth in these authors’ novels, Crossley demonstrates, repositions age-consciousness as an integral part of nineteenth-century debates about masculine heterogeneity.
Author : S.D. Sharma
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9788126902071
Studies In Fiction Deals With George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Thomas Love Peacock, Anita Desai, Jerome David Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, W.M. Thackeray, George Eliot, Walker Percy And George Meredith In Addition To A Number Of Other Novelists. The Chapters Based On These Novelists Thoroughly And Conclusively Analyse And Summarise Only Those Aspects Which Form The Central Part Of The Modern Criticism. Novels Chosen For Discussion, Too, Are Those Which Usually Have A Scholarly Tradition Of Criticism. The Early As Well As The Late Victorian Fiction Has Been Re-Interpreted In The Light Of Uniformitarianism, Naturalism Newtorism And Darwinism.
Author : George Meredith
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : George Meredith
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1893
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