01639 a2200205 4500 20251114152341.0 250923b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521670975 eng 823.8 HenC Henry, Nancy The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot / Nancy Henry United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press , ©2008 xi, 129p.; 23cm. Cambridge Introductions to Literature Preface 1. Life 2. Historical contexts 3. Literary influences 4. Works 5. Afterlife Further reading. As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to take on the kind of political and philosophical fiction that had previously been a male preserve, combining rigorous intellectual ideas with a sensitive understanding of human relationships and making her one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. This innovative introduction provides students with the religious, political, scientific and cultural contexts they need to understand and appreciate her novels, stories, poetry and critical essays. Nancy Henry also traces the reception of her work to the present, surveying a range of critical and theoretical responses. Each novel is discussed in a separate section, making this the most comprehensive short introduction available to this important author. English literature Literature & Rhetoric BK 7568 7568 0 0 ddc 0 0 HSS IITTP IITTP GEN 2025-09-22 Shri Raghavendra Global Books 1206.98 9366 0 823.8 HenC (11463) 11463 2025-10-17 00:00:00 Copy 01 1774.97 2025-09-22 BK