George Meredith

The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-32450-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century. Interweaving analysis of Meredith’s novels and poems with discussion of his life, Richard Cronin focuses primarily on the books Meredith read and wrote—arguing that novels by the end of the nineteenth century were shaped as much by the reading as by the experience of their writers. Cronin places Meredith’s novels in relation to the work of his contemporaries including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and George Gissing. Organized thematically, the book explores Meredith’s personal side—including his hostility to biography, his origins as the son of a tailor, his marriages—as well as his reading habits, and the prose style that is the most complete expression of his strange but compelling personality.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronin, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Meredith and the Personal.- 2. Tailordom.- 3. Mary (Courtship).- 4. Mary (Marriage).- 5. Novel People.- 6. Sons.- 7. Marie.- 8. Meredith and the Meredithian.

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Cronin is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. His most recent books are Romantic Victorians English Literature, 1824-1840 (2001); Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010); and Reading Victorian Poetry (2011).