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Article: Identifying the Remains: George Eliot's Death in the London Religious Press.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Identifying the Remains: George Eliot's Death in the London Religious Press. By K. K. COLLINS. Victoria, BC: ELS Editions. 2006. 119 pp. $18. ISBN 978-0920604-94-6.
This compact but well-researched study of the contemporary responses to George Eliot's death offers a fascinating snapshot of Victorian attitudes both to religion and to literature. K. K. Collins sets out to challenge the standard account of the reception of Eliot's work in which the central problem is seen to be the disparity between the 'imagined' or implied author, a gentle and wise upholder of Christian morality, and the 'real' author, the radical propounder through essays and translations of what ...