George Eliot Lecture Series on Free Audio Download

In this series of three lectures, Oxford Professor Catherine Brown examines the life, work, and critical legacy of Victorian novelist, George Eliot. An intellectual powerhouse, Eliot's classic books, including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, and Adam Bede are known for their carefully constructed, brilliantly researched stories filled with characters expressive of the author's moral and philosophical interests. Brown also gives an up to the moment appraisal of Eliot's ongoing legacy, providing a historical overview of how Eliot's initial fame began to decline in the 1930s, only to be revived in the post-war period by a series of influential critics that compared her importance to contemporaries such as Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James.