Paris, Bernard J. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life.(Book Review)

From: Studies in the Novel | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

PARIS, BERNARD J. Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, May 2003. xiii + 220 pp. $57.50 (Hardcover); $18.95(Paperback).

In the "Preface" to his Rereading George Eliot: Changing Responses to Her Experiments in Life, Bernard J. Paris recalls that he "wrote a doctoral dissertation on George Eliot that [he] honed into [his] first book, Experiments in Life: George Eliot's Quest for Values (1965)." He rightly observes that the "book has had a considerable impact on George Eliot studies," that he ...

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