The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans by Rosemarie Bodenheimer

The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans by Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Bodenheimer defines the personal paradoxes that helped to shape Eliot's fictional characters and narrative style.

A richly compelling portrait of nineteenth-century British writer George Eliot... Rather than arranging her material in standard chronological fashion, Bodenheimer has elected to present her analysis via a series of critical issues that affected both the social and literary styles of George Eliot throughout the course of her life. A fascinating hybrid of literary criticism and biography.

* Booklist *

Alert to the carefully deployed, multiple masks that Mary Ann Evans chose to wear, but also capable of writing with genuine feeling of Eliot's actual and fictional labors of choice, Bodenheimer has managed to write that seemingly impossible thing, postmodern biography that a humanist can admire.

* Boston Book Review *

An attentive reader of this book will never read George Eliot in the same way again.

* George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies *

Here we have the first full-scale study of George Eliot's correspondence.... Both the fictive nature of the letters and the autobiographical reality of fiction are well discussed in this very welcome book.

* Choice *

The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans is a critical book in which Eliot's letters and novels become one unit.... Bodenheimer talks about very unusual topics.

* Lingua Franca *

Rosemarie Bodenheimer is Professor of English at Boston College.

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ISBN 13	9780801481840
ISBN 10	0801481848
Title	The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans
Author	Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	1996-05-02
Number of pages	316
Prizes	Winner of A 1995 Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.