The Lifted Veil, George Eliot - Jennifer Uglow (essay date 1987)
Jennifer Uglow (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Uglow, Jennifer. “‘The Lifted Veil’: The Limits of Vision.” In George Eliot, pp. 114-22. London: Virago, 1987.
[In the following essay, Uglow argues that Eliot's troubled and lonely personal life pervade “The Lifted Veil.”]
Three weeks before Adam Bede was published in February 1859, Marian and Lewes were investigating the subject of floods, ‘looking into the Annual Register for cases of inundation’ and by the end of March she could promise Blackwood another long novel, ‘a sort of companion picture of provincial life’. This was to be The Mill on the Floss. But although Adam Bede was an instant, outstanding success, reprinting numerous times in different editions, translated into four languages and earning enough to ease the Leweses of financial headaches, the year in which she wrote her new novel had elements of sadness, loneliness and suspicion. Her...
[The entire page is 3446 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
