'Just Proportions': The Material of George Eliot's Writing



Birch, DL ORCID: 0000-0001-5324-3653
(2018) 'Just Proportions': The Material of George Eliot's Writing. In: Thinking Through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press,Oxford, pp. 167-182. ISBN 978 0 19 873782 7

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Abstract

<p>George Eliot’s style developed during her early years as an exceptionally cultured journalist, translator, and editor, building a relation with her readers that rested on the authority of her wide-ranging scholarly and scientific references. But she also cautioned her readers about the limits of learning, and the need to locate knowledge in the context of sympathy. When she turned to fiction with the publication of <italic>Scenes of Clerical Life</italic> in 1857, she continued to build on these principles. An analysis of <italic>Middlemarch</italic> demonstrates that the flexible style of her mature writing continues to rest on a dazzling breadth of knowledge, coupled with an acknowledgement of the authority of feeling, and the moral responsibilities that are inseparable from our shared humanity.</p>

Item Type: Book Section
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2018 10:08
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 06:38
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0011
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3019240