George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic

George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780429018565
ISBN-13 : 0429018568
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Book Synopsis George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic by : Constance Fulmer

Download or read book George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic written by Constance Fulmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Eliot’s serious readers have been intrigued by the fact that she declared that she had lost her faith in God and had renounced her hope for a traditional Christian heaven and yet she continued to preach her own version of morality in everything she wrote, to hope for an immortality which allowed her to join an invisible choir which would influence generations to come, and to be concerned about the moral growth of her characters. This is only one of the many compelling contradictions in her life and in her artistry. This volume aims to investigate Eliot’s ethical and artistic principles by defining her moral aesthetic as it relates to her self-concept and exploring Eliot’s narrative decisions and the decisions made by her characters and the circumstances which prompt those choices. Dr. Fulmer includes chapters on her clerical figures and other types of individuals such as musicians, and politicians. Dr. Fulmer also illuminates the paradoxes and contradictions in George Eliot’s life and in her philosophy by focusing on Eliot's use of animals, mirrors, windows, jewelry, wills and other tangible images in her poetry as well as her novels. George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic contends that everything about her moral philosophy is related to her writing and that everything about her writing is related to her moral philosophy.


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