Temporality and statuesque women in George Eliot

Marshall, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7731-2385 (2020) Temporality and statuesque women in George Eliot. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (29). ISSN 1755-1560 doi: 10.16995/ntn.1937

Abstract/Summary

This article examines George Eliot’s use of references to sculpture and of the sculptural metaphor and argues that this art form is central to her articulation and development of realism in fiction. In assessing sculpture’s links to women, Eliot highlights its temporal as well as its spatial dimensions, and, in so doing, disputes Gotthold Lessing’s analysis of this art form.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/91949
Identification Number/DOI	10.16995/ntn.1937
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Literature
Publisher	Birkbeck
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