An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled
with the question of marriage, in art and life When she was in her
mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot -
an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her
debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner,
George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three.
After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for
twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and
dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not
legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great
experience' of marriage - 'this double life, which helps me to feel
and think with double strength'. The relationship scandalized her
contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once
inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of
life - so familiar yet also so perplexing - from both sides. In The
Marriage Question Clare Carlisle reveals Eliot to be not only a
great artist but a brilliant philosopher who probes the tensions
and complexities of a shared life. Through the immense ambition and
dark marriage plots of her novels we see Eliot wrestling - in art
and in life - with themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and
creativity, trust and disillusion, destiny and chance. Reading them
afresh, Carlisle's searching new biography explores how marriage
questions grow and change, and joins Eliot in her struggle to marry
thought and feeling.
General
Imprint: |
Allen Lane
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Clare Carlisle
|
Dimensions: |
240 x 160 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-44717-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-241-44717-8 |
Barcode: |
9780241447178 |
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