George Eliot and the British Empire

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Cambridge University Press, Nov 2, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 200 pages
In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces new facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. She examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of Eliot's fiction and her position within Victorian culture. The book also reexamines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.

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About the author (2006)

Nancy Henry is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the State University of New York, Binghamton. She is the editor of George Eliot's Impressions of Theophratus Such (1994), Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (1997), and Gaskell's Ruth. She is a contributor to both the Oxford Companion to George Eliot and The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (2001). She has published widely on George Eliot, including essays in the Cambridge Companion to George Eliot and in Victorian Literature and Culture.

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TitleGeorge Eliot and the British Empire
Volume 34 of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
AuthorNancy Henry
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCambridge University Press, 2006
ISBN0521027918, 9780521027915
Length200 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
  
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