Temporality and Statuesque Women in George Eliot

This article examines George Eliot’s use of references to sculpture and of the sculptural metaphor and argues that this art form is central to her articulation and development of realism in fiction. In assessing sculpture’s links to women, Eliot highlights its temporal as well as its spatial dimensi...

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Main Author: Gail Marshall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-03-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1937/