It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation by Alan L. Mintz
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Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of...
George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation by Alan L. Mintz is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.
This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation aloud.
George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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