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Auteur(s) : McCormack, Kathleen (1944-....)
Titre(s) : George Eliot in society [Texte imprimé] : travels abroad and Sundays at the Priory / Kathleen McCormack
Publication : Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013
Description matérielle : xiii, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: the big "S" ; Travels abroad : taking the waters ; Months of Sundays
; Between Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda : singers, lovers, and others ; The salons,
the spas, and Daniel Deronda ; John Cross and the last spa.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index
"Sundays at the Priory, the salons that George Eliot and George Henry Lewes conducted
throughout the winter seasons during their later years in the 1870s, have generally
earned descriptions as at once scandalous and dull, with few women in attendance,
and guests approaching the Sibyl one by one to express their almost pious devotion.
But both the guest lists of the salons--which include significant numbers of women,
a substantial gay and lesbian contingent, and a group of singers who performed repeatedly--together
with the couple's frequent travels to European spas, where they encountered many of
the guests likely to visit the Priory, revise the conclusion that George Eliot lived
her entire life as an ostracized recluse. Instead, newly mined sources reveal George
Eliot as a member of a large and elite, if slightly Bohemian, international social
circle in which she moved as a literary celebrity and through which she stimulated
her creative imagination as she composed her later poetry and fiction. George Eliot
in Society: Travels Abroad and Sundays at the Priory by Kathleen McCormack draws attention
to the survival of the literary/musical/artistic salon in the Victorian era, at a
time in which social interactions coexisted with rising tensions that would soon obliterate
the European spa/salon culture in which the Leweses participated, both as they traveled
abroad and at Sundays at the Priory." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Eliot, George (1819-1880)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814212110 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0814212115 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780814293133 (cd). - ISBN 0814293131 (cd)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435983382
Notice n° :
FRBNF43598338
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