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Overview
This book explores the interrelations between communal memory and the sense of history in George Eliot's novels by focusing on issues such as memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, memory and time, and the interactions between personal, communa,l and national memories. Hao Li offers a series of critical readings informed by 19th century theories and argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of the dialectics of memory and history, an understanding that both integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time.
Synopsis
Li (English, U. of Toronto) reappraises Eliot's (1819-80) understanding of such issues as memory and narrative; memory and oblivion; the temporal sense and historical meaning of memory; and the interactions between personal, communal, and national memories. She looks at how she conceptualized and transformed 19th-century theories of memory in her novels. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR