Translations by George Eliot (link)
Before she became fiction writer George Eliot, Marian Evans translated three works, The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss, The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach, and The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza.
The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined. Translated by Marian Evans from Das Leben Jesu, by David Friedrich Strauss. London, Edward Chapman and William Hall, 1846. 3 vols. George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett,
The Essence of Christianity. Translated by Marian Evans from Das Wesen des Christentums, by Ludwig Feuerbach. London, Edward Chapman and William Hall, 1854. George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett,
The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza. Translated by Marian Evans from Ethica, by Benedict de Spinoza, Edited by Thomas Deegan. Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, Austria, 1981. George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett,
Conclusion
More than anyone else, Eliot was responsible for making the novel, a genre which had traditionally been read primarily for entertainment, into a vehicle for the serious expression of ideas. Few novelists can equal Eliot’s depth of intellect or breadth of learning. Deeply involved in the religious and philosophical ferment of her time, Eliot was probably the first major English novelist who did not subscribe, at least nominally, to the tenets of Christian theology. Nevertheless, her strong moral commitment, derived from her Evangelical Christian heritage, led her to conceive of the novel as an instrument for preaching a gospel of duty and self-renunciation.
Moral commitment alone, however, does not make a great novelist. In addition, Eliot’s extraordinary psychological insight enabled her to create characters who rival in depth and complexity any in English or American fiction. Few novelists can equal her talents for chronicling tangled motives, intricate self-deceptions, or an anguished struggle toward a noble act. She creates a fictional world that combines, in a way unsurpassed in English fiction, a broad panorama of society and psychological insight into each character.
List of used literature
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Hughes, Kathryn. George Eliot: The Last Victorian. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot, Voice of a Century: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
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