TY - BOOK AU - Henry,Nancy TI - The Cambridge introduction to George Eliot SN - 9780521854627 AV - PR4688 .H46 2008 U1 - 823.8 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Eliot, George, N1 - As the author of The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, George Eliot was one of the most admired novelists of the Victorian period, and she remains a central figure in the literary canon today. She was the first woman to take on the kind of political and philosophical fiction that had previously been a male preserve, combining rigorous intellectual ideas with a sensitive understanding of human relationships and making her one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-122) and index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008299524-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008299524-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0838/2008299524-t.html ER -