Author: Richard Cronin
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030324486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century. Interweaving analysis of Meredith’s novels and poems with discussion of his life, Richard Cronin focuses primarily on the books Meredith read and wrote—arguing that novels by the end of the nineteenth century were shaped as much by the reading as by the experience of their writers. Cronin places Meredith’s novels in relation to the work of his contemporaries including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing. Organized thematically, the book explores Meredith’s personal side—including his hostility to biography, his origins as the son of a tailor, his marriages—as well as his reading habits, and the prose style that is the most complete expression of his strange but compelling personality.
George Meredith
Author: Richard Cronin
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030324486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century. Interweaving analysis of Meredith’s novels and poems with discussion of his life, Richard Cronin focuses primarily on the books Meredith read and wrote—arguing that novels by the end of the nineteenth century were shaped as much by the reading as by the experience of their writers. Cronin places Meredith’s novels in relation to the work of his contemporaries including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing. Organized thematically, the book explores Meredith’s personal side—including his hostility to biography, his origins as the son of a tailor, his marriages—as well as his reading habits, and the prose style that is the most complete expression of his strange but compelling personality.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030324486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century. Interweaving analysis of Meredith’s novels and poems with discussion of his life, Richard Cronin focuses primarily on the books Meredith read and wrote—arguing that novels by the end of the nineteenth century were shaped as much by the reading as by the experience of their writers. Cronin places Meredith’s novels in relation to the work of his contemporaries including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing. Organized thematically, the book explores Meredith’s personal side—including his hostility to biography, his origins as the son of a tailor, his marriages—as well as his reading habits, and the prose style that is the most complete expression of his strange but compelling personality.
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives
Author: Diane Johnson
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374463
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.
Modern Love
Author: George Meredith
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
Author: George Meredith
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Egoist
Author: George Meredith
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Writings & Life of George Meredith
Author: Mary Sturge Gretton
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Writing & Life of George Meredith
Author: Mary Sturge Gretton
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Evan Harrington
Author: George Meredith
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A Reading of Life with Other Poems
Author: George Meredith
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Category : English Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Category : English Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
Author: George Meredith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368924834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368924834
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.