{"product_id":"george-eliot-and-the-politics-of-national-inheritance","title":"George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this stimulating history of the ideas behind George Eliot's novels, Bernard Semmel explores Eliot's imaginative use of the theme of inheritance, as a metaphor for her political thinking. Through detailed analyses of Eliot's novels and other writings, and a study of the intellectual currents of the time, Semmel demonstrates how and why Eliot's views on inheritance provided central ideas for her fiction. Semmel uncovers Eliot's intent when she wrote of\n\u003cbr\u003ethe obligations of inheritance both in the common meaning of the term, as in the transfer of goods and property from parents to children, and in the more metaphoric sense of the inheritance of both the\n\u003cbr\u003ebenefits and burdens of the historical past, particularly those of the nation's culture and traditions. He believes Eliot's novels dwelt so insistently on the idea of inheritance in good part because she viewed herself as intellectually \"disinherited,\" writing as she did at a time when much of England was being transformed from a traditional community to an alienating modern society, and when, moreover, she suffered from a painful estrangement from her family.  In this\n\u003cbr\u003ethought-provoking study, Semmel dissects the politics of Eliot's novels, including Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Romola Felix Holt, and Adam Bede, and convincingly displays the relationship between Eliot's variations\n\u003cbr\u003eon the theme of inheritance and her acceptance of  Britain's traditional policies of compromise and reform.  All those interested in Victorian literature, history, and political thought will appreciate Semmel's George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156309831918,"sku":"9780195086577","price":174.56,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/george-eliot-and-the-politics-of-national-inheritance","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}