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The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot's Career: A Reconsideration


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dc.contributorBeverley Park Rilett, bdr0032@auburn.eduen_US
dc.creatorRilett, Beverley Park
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-31T19:34:37Z
dc.date.available2022-03-31T19:34:37Z
dc.date.created2017
dc.identifier10.5325/georelioghlstud.69.1.0002en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://georgeeliotscholars.org/items/show/314en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50053
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-122
dc.description.abstractRilett's article examines the "protection" and "encouragement" George Henry Lewes provided to Eliot throughout her fiction-writing career. According to biographers, Lewes showed his selfless devotion to Eliot by encouraging her to begin and continue writing fiction; by fostering the mystery of her authorship; by managing her finances; by negotiating her publishing contracts; by managing her schedule; by hosting a salon to promote her books; and by staying close by her side for twenty-four years until death parted them. By reconsidering each element of Lewes's devotion separately, Rilett challenges the prevailing construction of the Eliot–Lewes relationship as the ideal partnership of literary agent and author and the perfect marriage. Rilett's revisionist interpretation seeks to open up Eliot's fiction to productive new biographical readings for a new generation of scholars.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherGeorge Eliot Scholarsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGeorge Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studiesen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA)en_US
dc.subjectGeorge Elioten_US
dc.subjectGeorge Henry Lewesen_US
dc.subjectmarriageen_US
dc.subjectbiographyen_US
dc.subjectnineteenth-century literary agents and authorsen_US
dc.titleThe Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot's Career: A Reconsiderationen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume69en_US
dc.citation.issue1en_US
dc.citation.spage2en_US
dc.citation.epage34en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-1699-0323en_US

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