George Eliot's Religious Imagination
In this study, Orr attributes to George Eliot an ‘incarnational aesthetic’ and reads her work in the light of it. Writing, she argues, might be said to have become the novelist’s religion and ‘its most recognizable tenet was the living out of incarnation’. Here, Orr examines Eliot’s works more or le...
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| description | In this study, Orr attributes to George Eliot an ‘incarnational aesthetic’ and reads her work in the light of it. Writing, she argues, might be said to have become the novelist’s religion and ‘its most recognizable tenet was the living out of incarnation’. Here, Orr examines Eliot’s works more or less chronologically because of the deeply evolutionary quality to Eliot’s career. In a personal sense, she is loathe to repeat herself and, while readers might recognize situations that she is revisiting, she always needs to believe in her own development as a writer. In her letters she repeatedly champions her first stories, for example, largely because they contain “ideas” that she doubts she “can ever embody again." In a broader sense this is an important idea, however, in that her philosophy was grounded in a belief in the idea of progress. Orr engages in close readings of Eliot's writings to demonstrate how deeply the novelist's religious imagination operate in her fiction and poetry. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-395152025-07-31T19:37:58Z George Eliot's Religious Imagination Orr, Marilyn Literature Consciousness George Eliot God Pierre Teilhard de Chardin In this study, Orr attributes to George Eliot an ‘incarnational aesthetic’ and reads her work in the light of it. Writing, she argues, might be said to have become the novelist’s religion and ‘its most recognizable tenet was the living out of incarnation’. Here, Orr examines Eliot’s works more or less chronologically because of the deeply evolutionary quality to Eliot’s career. In a personal sense, she is loathe to repeat herself and, while readers might recognize situations that she is revisiting, she always needs to believe in her own development as a writer. In her letters she repeatedly champions her first stories, for example, largely because they contain “ideas” that she doubts she “can ever embody again." In a broader sense this is an important idea, however, in that her philosophy was grounded in a belief in the idea of progress. Orr engages in close readings of Eliot's writings to demonstrate how deeply the novelist's religious imagination operate in her fiction and poetry. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-06-07 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:32 2020-04-01T12:41:28Z 2017-11-15 book 650638 OCN: 1076640860 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29979 9780810135895 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39515 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29979/1/650638.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29979/1/650638.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29979/1/650638.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29979/1/650638.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29979/1/650638.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.2307/j.ctv3znz9n 10.2307/j.ctv3znz9n 48d591b9-fcc1-45f5-8079-0e9222a4efeb Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810135895 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Evanston, Illinois 101265 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection open access |
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