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George Meredith, 1st ed. 2019
The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist
Author: Cronin Richard
Language: EnglishSubjects for George Meredith:
Approximative price 89.66 €
In Print (Delivery period: 15 days).
Add to cart the book of Cronin RichardPublication date: 12-2020
294 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Paperback
Approximative price 89.66 €
In Print (Delivery period: 15 days).
Add to cart the book of Cronin RichardPublication date: 12-2019
294 p. · 14.8x21 cm · Hardback
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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.
1. Meredith and the Personal.- 2. Tailordom.- 3. Mary (Courtship).- 4. Mary (Marriage).- 5. Novel People.- 6. Sons.- 7. Marie.- 8. Meredith and the Meredithian.
Richard Cronin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. His most recent books are Romantic Victorians English Literature, 1824-1840 (2001); Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010); and Reading Victorian Poetry (2011).
Explores Meredith’s hostility towards biography and his attempts to obscure his personal life
Traces a late-nineteenth-century turn toward writing influenced by other novels rather than experience
Expands understanding of style and prose of an often-ignored author
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