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    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...

    Ruth Livesey in The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 (2018)