A01=Charlotte Fiehn
Author_Charlotte Fiehn
British literature
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gender criticism
George Eliot's novels
George Eliot's poetry
nineteenth-century literature
nineteenth-century novelists
Victorian novel
Victorian women
Product details
- ISBN 9781793646934
- Weight: 508g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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George Eliot and Her Women argues that the Victorian writer George Eliot (1819 – 1880) was not only keenly aware of women’s issues but more deeply engaged with them than she has yet received credit for. Proposing that her work is still misread and misunderstood because of her unusual and complex relationship to gender and an inattention to the complexity of her female characters and their representation, the book examines Eliot’s construction and treatment of female characters throughout her prose fiction and her poetry to show that she was very much attuned to and supportive of women’s issues. Demonstrating that Eliot was unable to speak publicly on women’s issues because of her complicated private life, George Eliot and Her Women demonstrates that she nonetheless advocated for women’s rights, particularly access to education, through her fiction and poetry, using her creative works to inspire sympathy and promote awareness about women’s struggles in nineteenth-century Britain.
Charlotte Fiehn is instructor of writing and literature at Yeshiva University."
