George Eliot's Originals and Contemporaries

Gathers 14 of Gordon S. Haight's essays on the life and work of Victorian authors and artists, among them George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, and G.F. Watts.

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Part 1 Originals: George Eliot's originals; poor Mr. Casaubon; George Eliot's "Eminent Failure", Will Ladislaw; the heroine of "Middlemarch"; George Eliot's Klesmer; George Eliot's Bastards. Part 2 Contemporaries: the Carlyles and Leweses; Dickens and Lewes; Dickens and Lewes on spontaneous combustion; George Meredith and the "Westminster Review"; Tennyson's Merlin; Robert Browning's widows; George Eliot and Watts's "Clytie; male chastity in the 19th century; checklist of articles, notes, letters to editors, and book chapters by Gordon S. Haight.