The Egoist George Meredith Author
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George Meredith (1828-1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. After reading law and being articled as … mais…
George Meredith (1828-1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. After reading law and being articled as a solicitor he abandoned that profession in favour of journalism and poetry, collaborating on a privately circulated literary magazine, the Monthly Observer, with Edward Peacock, the son of Thomas Love Peacock. In 1849 he married Edward's widowed sister, Mary Ellen Nicolls, who deserted him for the Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis in 1858. Meredith had posed for Wallis's painting The Death of Chatterton in 1856. Meredith's collection of sonnets entitled Modern Love (1862) emerged from this experience, as did his first major novel, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859). In 1864 he remarried, continuing to write novels and poetry. Meredith had a keen understanding of comedy and his Essay on Comedy (1877) remains a reference work in the history of comic theory. In The Egoist (1879), one of his most enduring novels, he employs some of his theories of comedy, whilst also highlighting the subjugation of women during the Victorian period, another recurring theme in his work. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage. Having been jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton, but more importantly the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement, emphasizing the difficulties faced by women in Victorian society when they were too often seen as a commodity to be trafficked between fathers and husbands. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, B&R Samizdat Express Digital >16<
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George Meredith:The Egoist
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The EgoistGeorge Meredith (1828 - 1909)The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and h… mais…
The EgoistGeorge Meredith (1828 - 1909)The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror The EgoistGeorge Meredith (1828 - 1909)The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patterne and his attempts at marriage; jilted by his first bride-to-be, he vacillates between the sentimental Laetitia Dale and the strong-willed Clara Middleton. More importantly, the novel follows Clara's attempts to escape from her engagement to Sir Willoughby, who desires women to serve as a mirror for him and consequently cannot understand why she would not want to marry him. Thus, The Egoist dramatizes the difficulty contingent upon being a woman in Victorian society, when women's bodies and minds are trafficked between fathers and husbands to cement male bonds. EBooks, Books~~Fiction~~Classics, Egoist~~George-Meredith, 1153769, The Egoist, George Meredith, 0000763012, B & R Samizdat Express, , , , , B & R Samizdat Express<
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Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed. He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the beha… mais…
Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed. He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and Virginia Woolf said of The Egoist: 'Meredith pays us a supreme compliment to which as novel-readers we are little accustomed. He imagines us capable of disinterested curiosity in the behaviour of our kind.' In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of the most powerful class within the very citadel of security which its members have built. He develops to their logical extremity his ideas on egoism, on sentimentality and on the power of comedy. Meredith saw egoism as the great enemy of truth, feeling and progress, and comedy as the great dissolver of artifice. The Egoist is the extreme expression of his recurrent theme: the defeat of egoism by the power of comedy. EBooks, Books~~Fiction~~Classics, Egoist~~George-Meredith, 1155878, The Egoist, George Meredith, 0000763012, B & R Samizdat Express, , , , , B & R Samizdat Express<
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