Fisher places the work of George Eliot within the great evolution that constitutes the nineteenth-century English novel. He reports not only about her work, but about an evolving complex literary form. Fisher examines EliotAEs work as responding to \u201cthe loss of society,\u201d the breakdown between public life and individua moral history. As trust in the community as a base of moral life weakens, decisive changes occur: the English novel accommodated itself to the disappearance of society and changed from the representation of individuals as members of a social order to the description of the self surrounded by collections of unrelated others.
- ISBN10 0822938006
- ISBN13 9780822938002
- Publish Date December 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English