George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 1998: "Ego, Anonymity, and Healing in George Eliot"
Title
George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 1998: "Ego, Anonymity, and Healing in George Eliot"
Description
Eliot's ultimate goal- morally, aesthetically - was to free the individual ego from the suf-fering of reflecting upon itself. Her fiction, which she saw as a series of evolving psycholog-ical phases, achieves this liberation through strongly argued models of balance and through the kinds of recognition linked to anonymous heroism…
Creator
Henry Alley
Source
George Eliot Review
1999: 30, 23-35
1999: 30, 23-35
Publisher
GER and George Eliot Archive
Date
Published 1999
Digitized 2017
Digitized 2017
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Citation
Henry Alley, “George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 1998: "Ego, Anonymity, and Healing in George Eliot",” George Eliot Review Online, accessed January 23, 2021, https://georgeeliotreview.org/items/show/499.