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Cultural formation | George Eliot | Her writing evinces a strong belief in progress, which for her meant the gradual improvement of the world through difficult, often imperceptible human effort, sometimes characterised as meliorism. Her biographer Kathryn Hughes
calls her the... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Critical studies of GE
's work solo and in relation to other writers or particular themes are legion. Important earlier critics include Barbara Hardy
and U. C. Knoepflmacher
. Inquiries into her relationship to science... |
Literary responses | Anne Enright | Terry Eagleton
reviewed this novel as an example of the way fiction has, since the modernist movement, shunned cheerfulness and embraced misery; he saw the marginally hopeful conclusion as a brave thing to have written... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | Terry Eagleton
, reviewing for the TLS, felt that not all these poems succeeded in preserving EJ
's necessary balance of form with feeling: some were hampered by obscurity or banality. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 3589 (11 December 1970): 1436 |
Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | Terry Eagleton
, reviewing The Little Red Chairs for the London Review of Books, pointed out the resemblance between Dragan and the actual, historical |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Muriel Spark
vigorously promoted the work of the Brontës in the mid twentieth century, and Winifred Gérin
was another important early biographer. Later in the century, J. Hillis Miller
provided an influential deconstructive reading of... |