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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Carlisle, Clare, 1977-     Subjects     Eliot, George, 1819-1880.     Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates.     Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Marriage.     Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.     English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Carlisle, Clare, 1977-       by title:      The marriage questio...       by call number:      921 E427c     Search the Web     Carlisle, Clare, 1977-     Eliot, George, 1819-1880.     Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates.     Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Marriage.     Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.     English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.       MARC Display

The marriage question : George Eliot's double life / Clare Carlisle. by Carlisle, Clare, 1977- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Call #: 921 E427c Subjects Eliot, George, 1819-1880.   Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates.   Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Marriage.   Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.   English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9780374600457 (hc.) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  xx, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in 2023 by Allen Lane, Great Britain"--T. p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-357) and index. Summary:  Mary Ann Evans (1819 - 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.In her mid-thirties, Mary Ann Evans transformed herself into 'George Eliot': an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes: writer, philosopher, and married father of three. After eloping to Berlin in 1854, they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'husband.' Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the great experience of 'marriage' --'this double life, which helps me to feel and think with double strength.' The relationship scandalized her contemporaries yet she grew immeasurably within it. Living at once inside and outside marriage, Eliot could experience this form of life -- so familiar yet also so perplexing -- from both sides. In 'The Marriage Question,' Clare Carlisle reveals Eliot to be not only a great artist but also a brilliant philosopher who probes the tensions and complexities of a shared life. Through the immense ambition and dark marriage plots of her novels, we see Eliot wrestling -- in art and in life -- with themes of desire and sacrifice, motherhood and creativity, trust and disillusion, destiny and chance. Carlisle's searching new biography explores how marriage questions grow and change, and joins Eliot in her struggle to marry thought and feeling." Clare Carlisle is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. She is the author of several books, including Spinoza's Religion, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard, and On Habit. She has also edited George Eliot's translation of Spinoza's Ethics. She grew up in Manchester, studied philosophy and theology at Cambridge, and now lives in London. Holds:  5   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 921 E427c Adult books Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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