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Is communal memory intrinsically related to a sense of history? If so, how? And what are their interrelations? Fundamental to these questions are issues that engaged the thinking of many nineteenth-century writers and continue to engage us today: for example, memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, the temporal sense and historical meaning of memory, and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories. Hao Li argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of these issues; she explores the ways in which they are conceptualized and transformed in Eliot's novels. Informed by nineteenth-century theories of memory and history, the book attempts a series of critical readings to illuminate important aspects of George Eliot's position that integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time, approaches that not only had a tremendous influence then but have played a significant role in shaping our own understanding of the dialectics of memory and history.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Memory and History in George Eliot
• Subtitle: Transfiguring the Past
• Author: Hao Li
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 227
• EAN: 9780333675953
• ISBN: 0333675959
• ID: 04597364
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. April 2000

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