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George Eliot, Judaism And The Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism
Nurbhai, Saleel, Newton, K. M.
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This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though previous studies have attempted to qualify the still-dominant view that George Eliot is firmly as part of the realistic tradition, this study goes further by demonstrating that a cohesive mythic structure with its basis in Jewish mysticism is identifiable in her fiction. Providing helpful background and factual information about the Golem and other aspects of Kabbalah, this work will ... Read more
This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though previous studies have attempted to qualify the still-dominant view that George Eliot is firmly as part of the realistic tradition, this study goes further by demonstrating that a cohesive mythic structure with its basis in Jewish mysticism is identifiable in her fiction. Providing helpful background and factual information about the Golem and other aspects of Kabbalah, this work will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333963814
SKU
V9780333963814
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About Nurbhai, Saleel, Newton, K. M.
SAKEEN NURBHAI is a Lecturer in English Literature at St Martin's College, Lancaster. He has published several articles on George Eliot as well as prose fiction and poetry. KENNETH NEWTON is Professor of English at the University of Dundee. He is the author of George Eliot: Romantic Humanist, In Defence of Literary Interpretation, Interpreting the Text, and has edited ... Read more
Reviews for George Eliot, Judaism And The Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism
'...the authors offer much that is provocative, and students and scholars of Eliot will find their book worth pondering.' - M.E. Burstein, Choice