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In this innovative study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of both Eliot's fiction and her situation within Victorian culture. Henry argues that Eliot's decision to represent the empire only as it infiltrated the imaginations and domestic lives of her characters illuminates the nature of her Realism. The book also re-examines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.

820 "18" ELIOT, GEORGE --- 820 "18" ELIOT, GEORGE Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--ELIOT, GEORGE --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--ELIOT, GEORGE --- Literature and society --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- History --- Eliot, George, --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳, --- Views on imperialism. --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Colonies in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature