George Eliot's Pulse - (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Neil Hertz (Paperback)

About the Book

Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her "not simply to be, but to utter."

Book Synopsis

Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her "not simply to be, but to utter."

From the Back Cover

"For sheer interpretive exhilaration, few books this year provided the satisfactions of George Eliot's Pulse."--Andrew H. Miller, Studies in English Literature

Review Quotes

"For sheer interpretive exhilaration, few books this year provided the satisfactions of George Eliot's Pulse."--Andrew H. Miller "Studies in English Literature"

About the Author

Neil Hertz is Professor of Humanities and English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The End of the Line: Essays on Psychoanalysis and the Sublime.