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dc.contributor.authorOrr, Marilyn
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-07 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-12 03:00:32
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:41:28Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:41:28Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-15
dc.identifier650638
dc.identifierOCN: 1076640860en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29979
dc.description.abstractIn this study, Orr attributes to George Eliot an ‘incarnational aesthetic’ and reads her work in the light of it. Writing, she argues, might be said to have become the novelist’s religion and ‘its most recognizable tenet was the living out of incarnation’. Here, Orr examines Eliot’s works more or less chronologically because of the deeply evolutionary quality to Eliot’s career. In a personal sense, she is loathe to repeat herself and, while readers might recognize situations that she is revisiting, she always needs to believe in her own development as a writer. In her letters she repeatedly champions her first stories, for example, largely because they contain “ideas” that she doubts she “can ever embody again." In a broader sense this is an important idea, however, in that her philosophy was grounded in a belief in the idea of progress. Orr engages in close readings of Eliot's writings to demonstrate how deeply the novelist's religious imagination operate in her fiction and poetry.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherConsciousness
dc.subject.otherGeorge Eliot
dc.subject.otherGod
dc.subject.otherPierre Teilhard de Chardin
dc.titleGeorge Eliot's Religious Imagination
dc.title.alternativeA Theopoetical Evolution
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.2307/j.ctv3znz9n
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780810135895
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationEvanston, Illinois
oapen.grant.number101265
oapen.grant.programKU Select 2017: Front list Collection
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Consciousness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness; George Eliot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot; God - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin
oapen.identifier.isbn9780810135895
grantor.number101265
oapen.identifier.ocn1076640860


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