George Eliot: Whole Soul

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Ilana M. Blumberg (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University)

George Eliot

Whole Soul

Ilana M. Blumberg (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University)

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English

Oxford University Press
14 March 2024

Biography: religious & spiritual; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; European history

Series: Spiritual Lives

"The girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so iconoclastic that she could not be buried in in Westminster Abbey? Memorialized there today by a stone lain in the Poets' Corner in 1980, George Eliot wrote herself and her fellow Victorians through turbulent decades of moral and historical doubt in religious orthodoxy, alongside the unrelenting need to articulate a compelling modern faith in its place. Unafraid to confront the most difficult existential questions of her time, George Eliot wrote immensely popular novels that wrestled with problems whose hold has barely lessened in the last 150 years: the pervasiveness of human suffering and the injustice of its measures; the tension between fulfilling our ethical obligations to others and pursuing our own well-being; the impetus to act virtuously in this world without any guarantee of reward, and the need to make some ""religion"" in life, something beyond our own immediate, fluctuating desires. In this new account of George Eliot's spiritual life, George Eliot: Whole Soul, Ilana Blumberg reveals to us a writer who did not simply lose her faith once and for all on her way to becoming an adult, but devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's letters, essays, translations, poetry, and novels, we encounter here a writer whose extraordinary

art and intellect offer us company, still today, in the search for modern meaning."

By: Ilana M. Blumberg (Associate Professor Associate Professor Bar Ilan University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9780192845092
ISBN 10: 0192845098
Series: Spiritual Lives
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ilana Blumberg teaches in the Department of English at Bar Ilan University in Israel. She earned her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Mellon Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the Israel Science Foundation. Ilana has received awards for teaching excellence from the University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University, where she taught for eleven years. Her research areas include life writing, education, and Victorian culture.