George Eliot U.S: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives

Mueller (American and English literature, U. of Cologne) demonstrates the complex and reciprocal relationship between George Eliot's fiction and the writings of her major American contemporaries, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. She also traces Eliot's influence on subsequent American fiction. She asserts that the appropriation of Eliot's fictional topics and plots by these authors were at odds with typical American literature and culture. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR