The Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot

RIGNALL, John (editor)

ISBN 10: 0198600992 / ISBN 13: 9780198600992

Published by Oxford University Press, 2000

About this Item

Done up nicely by the publisher in stately dark blue cloth with spine lettering and ruling gilt, quarto, pp. xxvi, 477 + [1]. Black and white illustrations; Maps; George Eliot Family Tree; Alphabetical List of Characters; Time Chart. A bit of heft to this one.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198600992
• ISBN 13: 9780198600992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 3.05W x 15.49H x 22.86D centimeters 3.05 centimeters width by 15.49 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1043 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books About Books / Bibliography / Reference
  • Women's Studies

About this title

Synopsis

Beautifully illustrated with 30 integrated black-and-white pictures, here are over 500 A-Z entries on the life and work of George Eliot.
Written by an international team of scholars, the Companion offers a wealth of biographical and historical information that illuminates Eliot's work. There are entries on all her novels (including plot synopses), stories, and important essays, plus coverage of poetry and translations, letters and journals, and notebooks and manuscripts. A long entry surveys her life, and shorter entries discuss her family, friends, and acquaintances, the places she lived and the countries she visited, and the writers, thinkers, artists, and composers whose work she knew. The volume also includes extensive cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading, a chronology, a bibliography, an alphabetical list of fictional characters, and maps of both fictional settings and the author's extensive travels.
In sum, this is the first reference work to do justice to the extraordinary range and depth of George Eliot's intellectual life.

About the Author

John Rignall studied at Cambridge and Sussex and is a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.