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• catalog abstract "In a new treatment of Eliot's booklength fiction, Alley argues that from the very moment she adopted a male pseudonym through to the major epic and tragic novels of her later life, the transcendence of fame was her major consideration. Focusing on one novel in each chapter, the study shows how the plights of Eliot's heroines and heroes do not end in frustration but in an affirmation of anonymous achievement, "the growing good of the world." For Eliot, heroism emerges through disclosure, rather than grandly executed action, and since the revelation requires discerning effort on the part of those watching, both observer and observed are celebrated. As Alley shows, no other subject in Eliot branches out so largely, so as to embrace all her artistic concerns, including her vision of her own biography and her need to adopt her pen name. Alley also demonstrates that for Eliot, the transcendent capacity to be unidentified creates a flexibility of mind that allows not only women but also men to shed confining personae and to be, in narrative form, both man and woman at the same time, an ability that imbues only the greatest of artists. The development of such models was evolutionary. Eliot drew on models from the Greek epics and tragedies, from Virgil, and from Shakespeare, Goethe, and Milton, to create her celebration of the unacknowledged. Out of the immortalized came the directive for extolling the anonymous, issuing in such great creations as Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, Maggie Tulliver, Tertius Lydgate, Gwendolen Harleth, and Dorothea Brooke. Evolutionary, too, is Eliot's own discovery of her most prominent theme, with its greatest clarifications arriving in the masterpieces of her later period.".
• catalog contributor b10567874.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description "As Alley shows, no other subject in Eliot branches out so largely, so as to embrace all her artistic concerns, including her vision of her own biography and her need to adopt her pen name. Alley also demonstrates that for Eliot, the transcendent capacity to be unidentified creates a flexibility of mind that allows not only women but also men to shed confining personae and to be, in narrative form, both man and woman at the same time, an ability that imbues only the greatest of artists.".
• catalog description "In a new treatment of Eliot's booklength fiction, Alley argues that from the very moment she adopted a male pseudonym through to the major epic and tragic novels of her later life, the transcendence of fame was her major consideration. Focusing on one novel in each chapter, the study shows how the plights of Eliot's heroines and heroes do not end in frustration but in an affirmation of anonymous achievement, "the growing good of the world." For Eliot, heroism emerges through disclosure, rather than grandly executed action, and since the revelation requires discerning effort on the part of those watching, both observer and observed are celebrated.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-178) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: "George Eliot" and the Road to Emmaus -- 1. Scenes of Clerical Life and the Art of Indirect Idealization -- 2. Heroic Perception in Adam Bede -- 3. The Narrative One-Room Schoolhouse of The Mill on the Floss -- 4. Silas Marner and the Anonymous Heroism of Parenthood -- 5. Romola and the Preservation of Household Gods -- 6. Esther and Rufus Lyon: "A More Regenerating Tenderness" in Felix Holt -- 7. Lydgate's Note and Dorothea's Tomb: The Quest for Anonymity in Middlemarch -- 8. Celebrity, Anonymity, and the Heroic Voices of Daniel Deronda.".
• catalog description "The development of such models was evolutionary. Eliot drew on models from the Greek epics and tragedies, from Virgil, and from Shakespeare, Goethe, and Milton, to create her celebration of the unacknowledged. Out of the immortalized came the directive for extolling the anonymous, issuing in such great creations as Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda, Maggie Tulliver, Tertius Lydgate, Gwendolen Harleth, and Dorothea Brooke. Evolutionary, too, is Eliot's own discovery of her most prominent theme, with its greatest clarifications arriving in the masterpieces of her later period.".
• catalog extent "182 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Quest for anonymity.".
• catalog identifier "0874136210 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Quest for anonymity.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Quest for anonymity.".
• catalog spatial "England".
• catalog subject "823/.8 21".
• catalog subject "Didactic fiction, English History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Ethics.".
• catalog subject "Heroes in literature.".
• catalog subject "PR4692.E8 A45 1997".
• catalog subject "Quests (Expeditions) in literature.".
• catalog subject "Self-denial in literature.".
• catalog subject "Social ethics in literature.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature England History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: "George Eliot" and the Road to Emmaus -- 1. Scenes of Clerical Life and the Art of Indirect Idealization -- 2. Heroic Perception in Adam Bede -- 3. The Narrative One-Room Schoolhouse of The Mill on the Floss -- 4. Silas Marner and the Anonymous Heroism of Parenthood -- 5. Romola and the Preservation of Household Gods -- 6. Esther and Rufus Lyon: "A More Regenerating Tenderness" in Felix Holt -- 7. Lydgate's Note and Dorothea's Tomb: The Quest for Anonymity in Middlemarch -- 8. Celebrity, Anonymity, and the Heroic Voices of Daniel Deronda.".
• catalog title "The quest for anonymity : the novels of George Eliot / Henry Alley.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".