This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non–fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis exploring the relation between Eliot s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era. A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholars Offers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot s work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aesthetics Reflects the very latest developments in literary scholarship Traces the revealing links between Eliot s Victorian intellectual concerns and those of today INDICE: Notes on Contributors ix .Introduction 1Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw .Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19 .1 Eliot and Narrative 21Monika Fludernik .2 Metaphor and Masque 35Michael Wood .3 It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You : George Eliot s Narrative Refusals 46Robyn Warhol .4 Surprising Realism 62Caroline Levine .5 Two Flowers: George Eliot s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76John Plotz .Part II: Works 91 .6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93Stefanie Markovits .7 Adam Bede: History s Maggots 105Rae Greiner .8 The Mill on the Floss and The Lifted Veil : Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117Adela Pinch .9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129David Wayne Thomas .10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141David Kurnick .11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153Andrew H. Miller .12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166Alex Woloch .13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178Herbert F. Tucker .14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192Jeff Nunokawa .15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Not a Story 204James Buzard .Part III: Life and Reception 217 .16 The Reception of George Eliot 219James Eli Adams .17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233Lynn Voskuil .18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247Alison Booth .19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262Daniel Hack .Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277 .20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279T. H. Irwin .21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294Isobel Armstrong .22 George Eliot and the Law 309Jan–Melissa Schramm .23 George Eliot and Finance 323Nancy Henry .24 George Eliot and Politics 338Carolyn Lesjak .25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot s Villages 353Josephine McDonagh .26 George Eliot s Liberalism 370Daniel S. Malachuk .27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385Laura Green .28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400Bruce Robbins .29 The Continental Eliot 413Hina Nazar .30 George Eliot and Secularism 428Simon During .31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442Amanda Anderson .32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457Jill L. Matus .33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471Ian Duncan .34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486Jonathan Loesberg .Index 500
- ISBN: 978-1-119-07247-8
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 608
- Fecha Publicación: 30/10/2015
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