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The Jewish odyssey of George Eliot /

It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of Englis...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Encounter Books, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew - a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists. And it is still more curious that Daniel Deronda, George Eliot's last novel, should have been dismissed, by many of her admirers at the time and by some critics since, as something of an anomaly, an inexplicable and unfortunate turn in her life and work. Yet Eliot herself was passiona.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (180 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and index.
ISBN:9781594033872
1594033870