Eliot, George - James Krasner (essay date 1994)
James Krasner (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: '"Where No Man Praised': The Retreat from Fame in George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy," in Victorian Poetry, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring, 1994, pp. 55-74.
[In the following-essay, Krasner explores the personal costs of "exposure" as defined in George Eliot's poetry.]
As she was completing her long dramatic poem The Spanish Gypsy, George Eliot responded to an inquiring publisher by drawing attention to the difference between this work and her novels:
The book I am writing is not a novel, and is likely to be dead against the taste of that large public which a publisher is for the most part obliged (rather unhappily) to take into account [The George Eliot Letters, 1955].
While it seems rather self-defeating for an author to warn a publisher that her new work will never sell, it is typical of George...
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