{"product_id":"2940013037533","title":"George Eliot","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                  PAGE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY                                         1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHILDHOOD AND EARLY HOME                             9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYOUTHFUL STUDIES AND FRIENDSHIPS                    22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSLATION OF STRAUSS AND FEUERBACH--TOUR ON\u003cbr\u003eTHE CONTINENT                                       44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE \"WESTMINSTER REVIEW\"                            59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE HENRY LEWES                                  77\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE                             91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eADAM BEDE                                          106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MILL ON THE FLOSS                              123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSILAS MARNER                                       137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROMOLA                                             148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHER POEMS                                          161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFELIX HOLT AND MIDDLEMARCH                         175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDANIEL DERONDA                                     192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLAST YEARS                                         204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGEORGE ELIOT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking of the contributions made to literature by her own sex, George\u003cbr\u003eEliot, in a charming essay written in 1854, awards the palm of\u003cbr\u003eintellectual pre-eminence to the women of France. \"They alone,\" says the\u003cbr\u003egreat English author, \"have had a vital influence on the development of\u003cbr\u003eliterature. For in France alone the mind of woman has passed, like an\u003cbr\u003eelectric current, through the language, making crisp and definite what\u003cbr\u003eis elsewhere heavy and blurred; in France alone, if the writings of\u003cbr\u003ewomen were swept away, a serious gap would be made in the national\u003cbr\u003ehistory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reason assigned by George Eliot for this literary superiority of\u003cbr\u003eFrenchwomen consists in their having had the courage of their sex. They\u003cbr\u003ethought and felt as women, and when they wrote, their books became the\u003cbr\u003efullest expression of their womanhood. And by being true to themselves,\u003cbr\u003eby only seeking inspiration from their own life-experience, instead of\u003cbr\u003eservilely copying that of men, their letters and memoirs, their novels\u003cbr\u003eand pictures have a distinct, nay unique, value, for the student of art\u003cbr\u003eand literature. Englishwomen, on the other hand, have not followed the\u003cbr\u003espontaneous impulses of nature. They have not allowed free play to the\u003cbr\u003epeculiarly feminine element, preferring to mould their intellectual\u003cbr\u003eproducts on the masculine pattern. For that reason, says George Eliot,\u003cbr\u003etheir writings are \"usually an absurd exaggeration of the masculine\u003cbr\u003estyle, like the swaggering gait of a bad actress in male attire.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121111515376,"sku":"2940013037533","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013037533_p0.jpg?v=1763575579","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013037533","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}