Vocation And Desire: George Eliot's Heroines (Routledge Library Editions: George Eliot)

First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist and sybil. Vocation and Desire questions that image, and finds in her work elements of anger, feminism, subversiveness, revenge, iconoclasm, wit, and eroticism - elements that we have been taught not to expect. Barrett's study of the heroines of the six major novels and issues of language and desire provides a refreshing and acute analysis of the contradictions and strengths of Eliot's work. title will be of interest to students of literature.

• | Author: Dorothea Barrett
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 24, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138182192
• | ISBN-13: 9781138182196