Identifying the Remains: George Eliot's Death in the London Religious Press. By K.K. Collins
George Eliot's death on 22 December 1880 has frequently been regarded, both by her contemporaries and subsequent generations of critics, as a watershed, ending her virtually unchallenged pre-eminence as a novelist, marking the wane of realist fiction as the dominant fictional mode, and making w...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 127 |
| Review of: | Identifying the remains (Victoria, BC : ELS Ed., 2006) (Jay, Elisabeth)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | George Eliot's death on 22 December 1880 has frequently been regarded, both by her contemporaries and subsequent generations of critics, as a watershed, ending her virtually unchallenged pre-eminence as a novelist, marking the wane of realist fiction as the dominant fictional mode, and making way for a self-consciously male-dominated literary clubland., This slim volume sees the event as providing a benchmark of a different kind. Collins argues that, precisely because George Eliot had always striven to maintain a private identity, obituarists had little opportunity for the kind of reminiscences provoked by the passing of Charles Dickens, whose public readings had secured his reputation as a familiar friend, or of Thomas Carlyle, whose irascible eccentricities made good copy. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn006 |
