Download or read book George Eliot: An Intellectual Life written by V. Dodd and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-03-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been several biographies of George Eliot but this is the first study to focus on her intellectual development. The book provides an analysis of the biographical and intellectual factors which encouraged George Eliot to decide upon fiction as her chosen mode of expression, and demonstrates how that decision was influenced by, and an echoing of, J.S.Mill's and Carlyle's critiques of philosophy.