What is the author's style in The Lifted Veil by George Eliot?

Eliot structures the story in "flashback" form, as Latimer begins the story exactly one month before he knows he's going to die, then takes the narrative back to his childhood and adult experiences, and then ends the story once again in his sitting room, as he writes the last words of the story, before dying, as he knew he would. This flashback structure takes on another dimension, however, due to the fact that Latimer is a clairvoyant, who can see events in the future before they occur. In that way, several key events of the story are told in a "flash forward," as Latimer describes events which then occur in the future.