5 Result(s)
within
Ruth Livesey
English
-
Article
Open AccessEngaging communities in addressing air quality: a sco** review
Exposure to air pollution has a detrimental effect on health and disproportionately affects people living in socio-economically disadvantaged areas. Engaging with communities to identify concerns and solutions...
-
Chapter
Arboreal Thinking: George Eliot and the Matter of Life in Adam Bede
In her first novel, Adam Bede, George Eliot’s sense of life is extended beyond the human to evoke ethical questions of the life of matter. Adam Bede reflects Eliot’s interest in scientific vitalism and her deep e...
-
Chapter
Marian Evans, George Eliot, and the Work of Sententiousness
This chapter examines George Eliot’s interest in and experiments with the forms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French sententiousness and wisdom literature. Despite the evident differences between Elio...
-
Chapter
Remembering Radicalism on the Midlands Turnpike: George Eliot, Felix Holt, and William Cobbett
On 1 March 1820, William Cobbett drove up the Coventry to Hinckley turnpike road in a hired post-chaise, past Griff House and then on through the village of Chilvers Coton (where he must have stopped to pay a ...
-
Chapter
Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend
Almost precisely half-way through Charles Dickens’s capacious and last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, the mercenary beauty, Bella Wilfer comes to reflect on the power of the substance she has spent her short ...
