Ranging over all George Eliots fiction and drawing as well on her lettersessays and translations in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertzdocuments Eliot... » 

Ranging over all George Eliots fiction and drawing as well on her lettersessays and translations in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertzdocuments Eliots lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of whatit might mean in the language of one of her early letters for her not simplyto be but to utter. «