1st Edition
George Eliot's English Travels Composite Characters and Coded Communications
By Kathleen McCormack
Copyright 2005
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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George Eliot’s more than fifty long and short journeys within England took her to dozens of sites scattered around the country. Revising the traditional notion that George Eliot drew her settings and characters only from the areas of her Warwickshire childhood, Kathleen McCormack demonstrates that English travel furnished the novelist with a wide variety of originals for the composite characters... Read more
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Points of Departure 3. Watering Places: Seasides 4. Islands 5. Brief Stays in Country Shires 6. Watering Places: Spas 7. Middlemarch: Whitby, Devon, Oxford, Surrey 8. Country Houses: Daniel Deronda Notes Bibliography
Biography
Kathleen McCormack, Professor of English at Florida International University in North Miami, has written widely on George Eliot and other Victorian authors, notably her book on George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for the Condition of England. She divides her time between London and Miami.
