Felix Holt, The Radical

by George Eliot

Overview

As in all of George Eliot's best work, every class of society is included in this portrait of political ferment and corrupt electioneering in a small Midland borough in 1832. At the heart of the novel is George Eliot's conviction that "men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789361424519
Publisher:	Double 9 Books
Publication date:	05/07/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	836 KB

About the Author

William Baker at Northern Illinois University, has edited George Henry Lewes’s and George Eliot’s letters.

Kenneth Womack at Penn State Altoona, has written widely on British and American literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
George Eliot: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Felix Holt, The Radical

Appendix A: The Legal Plot of Felix Holt, The Radical

Appendix B: “An Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt”

Appendix C: “The Natural History of German Life”

Appendix D: The Critical Response to Felix Holt, The Radical

Select Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

The Broadview Press Felix Holt, the Radical is a handsomely-produced and reader-friendly edition of George Eliot’s powerful novel of social ambition and illicit love. Generous selections of contextual material show how George Eliot’s theories of artistic production and understanding of political realities shape the novel, and what her contemporaries made of it. Editors Baker and Womack deploy their expertise in Victorian studies to illuminate this work for the twenty-first century.” — Margaret Harris, University of Sydney

“This edition carefully documents the politics of composition and of England at a critical time in the author’s and the country’s life. Useful appendices establish the context for understanding the novel and its background. The Condition of England Question at last comes alive!” — Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia

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