Meredith, George. (1828 - 1909).
W o r k
- wrote novels in a "Comic Spirit" x but: on serious subjects
- notable for his dialogue scenes and his female characters
> created sensation with his free-thinking and free-ranging morality
F i c t i o n :
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859):
- his first novel
> banned for its supposed moral offence
Evan Harrington (1860):
- Evan's sister = calculative seeker of social mobility
Diana of the Crossways (1885):
- the eponymous character = impulsive, restless, and independent
Beauchamp's Career (1874 - 1875):
- concerned with political manoeuvre as an extension of amatory interaction
Sandra Belloni (1864), sequel Vittoria (1867):
- concerned with contemporary political tensions in Italy
The Egoist (1879):
- comedy of English upper-class manners
P o e t r y :
Modern Love (1862):
- his most substantial volume of poems
- on the disintegration of a marriage
Quote
"Like sculptured effigies, they might be seen / Upon their marriage-tomb, the sword between; / Each wishing for the sword that severs all."
From Modern Love (1862).
Basics
(Picture: Wikimedia Commons).
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Author
George Meredith. (1828 - 1909). British. -
Work
Novelist. Poet. Author of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859). -
Genres
Victorian novel and poetry.
Literature
Abrams, Meyer Howard, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.
Barnard, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Praha: Brána, 1997.
Baugh, Albert C. ed. A Literary History of England. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
Coote, Stephen. The Penguin Short History of English Literature. London: Penguin, 1993.
Sampson, George. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946.
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. New York: Clarendon Press, 1994.