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The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot.(Review)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19990622
Author:PAYETTE, PATRICIA

ALLEY, HENRY. The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997). 182 pp. $33.50.

Henry Alley's The Quest for Anonymity: The Novels of George Eliot proposes to deal with Eliot's book-length fiction by tracing the thread of anonymous heroism as it evolved through each of her novels. The theme of heroism and its various guises and disguises, Alley argues, pervasively shaped the messages of Eliot's narratives, influenced her increasingly complex characterization of men and women, and contributed to her frequent use of allusions. In ...

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