CHAPTER I
The time of my end approaches. I have lately
been subject to attacks of angina pectoris;
and in the ordinary course of things, my physician
tells me, I may fairly hope that my life wi...
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Biography EssayThe most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biog...
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George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social d...
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The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched...
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George Eliot is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; yet, more often than not, her two volumes of poetry are ignored in modern critical assessments. Like s...
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George Eliot wrote nearly all of her nonfiction prose during two widely separated periods in her life. As Marian Evans, in her mid thirties, she produced more than sixty critical essays that appeared ...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1910, Watts-Dunton finds “The Lifted Veil” to be a remarkable story.
As to the two short stories, “The Lifted Veil” and...
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In the following essay, Sheasby suggests that Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Minister's Black Veil” may have influenced “The Lifted Veil.”
Many have found trac...
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In the following essay, Hertz determines the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on “The Lifted Veil.”
When her readers refer to someone called “George Eliot,” are they s...
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In the following essay, Knoepflmacher investigates the origins of “The Lifted Veil” and considers the story essential to Eliot's development as a philosophical novelist.
Lift n...
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In the following excerpt, Redinger discusses the circumstances surrounding the publication of “The Lifted Veil” and addresses similarities between Eliot and the protagonist of the story,...
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In the following essay, Gilbert and Gubar examine Eliot's place in Gothic female literary tradition, elucidate autobiographical aspects of “The Lifted Veil,” and provide a feminis...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1980, Eagleton maintains that “The Lifted Veil” explores the limitations and dangers of scientific knowledge.
It is always...
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In the following essay, Viera asserts that many of Eliot's aesthetic theories found in her early letters and essays are manifest in fictional form in “The Lifted Veil.”
Richard...
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In the following essay, Uglow argues that Eliot's troubled and lonely personal life pervade “The Lifted Veil.”
Three weeks before Adam Bede was published in February 1859, Mari...
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In the following essay, Payne provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of “The Lifted Veil” and discusses the reaction to the story from her publisher, critics, and readers.
1. the G...
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In the following essay, Flint examines “The Lifted Veil” in respect to Victorian views on medicine, science, and psychology.
On 17 March 1878 Edith Simcox paid a visit to George Eliot...
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The Lifted Veil
George Eliot
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Critical Essay by Theodore Watts-Dunton
