George Eliot’s Originals and Contemporaries : Essays in Victorian Literary History and Biography

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 George Eliot’s Originals....Pages 3-21 Poor Mr Casaubon....Pages 22-37 George Eliot’s ‘Eminent Failure’, Will Ladislaw....Pages 38-57 The Heroine of Middlemarch....Pages 58-67 George Eliot’s Klesmer....Pages 68-77 George Eliot’s Bastards....Pages 78-87 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 The Carlyles and the Leweses....Pages 91-116 Dickens and Lewes....Pages 117-133 Dickens and Lewes on Spontaneous Combustion....Pages 134-145 George Meredith and the Westminster Review....Pages 146-173 Tennyson’s Merlin....Pages 174-191 Robert Browning’s Widows....Pages 192-203 George Eliot and Watts’s Clytie....Pages 204-209 Male Chastity in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 210-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-240