A Anderson
John Wiley & Sons
e druk, 2013
9780470655993
A Companion to George Eliot
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Engels
John Wiley & Sons |
e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9780470655993
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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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
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780470655993
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:532
Uitgever:John Wiley & Sons
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Notes on Contributors ix
<p>Introduction 1<br /> Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw</p>
<p>Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19</p>
<p>1 Eliot and Narrative 21<br /> Monika Fludernik</p>
<p>2 Metaphor and Masque 35<br /> Michael Wood</p>
<p>3 It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You : George Eliot s Narrative Refusals 46<br /> Robyn Warhol</p>
<p>4 Surprising Realism 62<br /> Caroline Levine</p>
<p>5 Two Flowers: George Eliot s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76<br /> John Plotz</p>
<p>Part II: Works 91</p>
<p>6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93<br /> Stefanie Markovits</p>
<p>7 Adam Bede: History s Maggots 105<br /> Rae Greiner</p>
<p>8 The Mill on the Floss and The Lifted Veil : Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117<br /> Adela Pinch</p>
<p>9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129<br /> David Wayne Thomas</p>
<p>10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141<br /> David Kurnick</p>
<p>11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153<br /> Andrew H. Miller</p>
<p>12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166<br /> Alex Woloch</p>
<p>13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178<br /> Herbert F. Tucker</p>
<p>14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192<br /> Jeff Nunokawa</p>
<p>15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Not a Story 204<br /> James Buzard</p>
<p>Part III: Life and Reception 217</p>
<p>16 The Reception of George Eliot 219<br /> James Eli Adams</p>
<p>17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233<br /> Lynn Voskuil</p>
<p>18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247<br /> Alison Booth</p>
<p>19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262<br /> Daniel Hack</p>
<p>Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277</p>
<p>20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279<br /> T. H. Irwin</p>
<p>21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294<br /> Isobel Armstrong</p>
<p>22 George Eliot and the Law 309<br /> Jan–Melissa Schramm</p>
<p>23 George Eliot and Finance 323<br /> Nancy Henry</p>
<p>24 George Eliot and Politics 338<br /> Carolyn Lesjak</p>
<p>25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot s Villages 353<br /> Josephine McDonagh</p>
<p>26 George Eliot s Liberalism 370<br /> Daniel S. Malachuk</p>
<p>27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385<br /> Laura Green</p>
<p>28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400<br /> Bruce Robbins</p>
<p>29 The Continental Eliot 413<br /> Hina Nazar</p>
<p>30 George Eliot and Secularism 428<br /> Simon During</p>
<p>31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442<br /> Amanda Anderson</p>
<p>32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457<br /> Jill L. Matus</p>
<p>33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471<br /> Ian Duncan</p>
<p>34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486<br /> Jonathan Loesberg</p>
<p>Index 500</p>
<p>Introduction 1<br /> Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw</p>
<p>Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19</p>
<p>1 Eliot and Narrative 21<br /> Monika Fludernik</p>
<p>2 Metaphor and Masque 35<br /> Michael Wood</p>
<p>3 It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You : George Eliot s Narrative Refusals 46<br /> Robyn Warhol</p>
<p>4 Surprising Realism 62<br /> Caroline Levine</p>
<p>5 Two Flowers: George Eliot s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76<br /> John Plotz</p>
<p>Part II: Works 91</p>
<p>6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93<br /> Stefanie Markovits</p>
<p>7 Adam Bede: History s Maggots 105<br /> Rae Greiner</p>
<p>8 The Mill on the Floss and The Lifted Veil : Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117<br /> Adela Pinch</p>
<p>9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129<br /> David Wayne Thomas</p>
<p>10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141<br /> David Kurnick</p>
<p>11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153<br /> Andrew H. Miller</p>
<p>12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166<br /> Alex Woloch</p>
<p>13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178<br /> Herbert F. Tucker</p>
<p>14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192<br /> Jeff Nunokawa</p>
<p>15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Not a Story 204<br /> James Buzard</p>
<p>Part III: Life and Reception 217</p>
<p>16 The Reception of George Eliot 219<br /> James Eli Adams</p>
<p>17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233<br /> Lynn Voskuil</p>
<p>18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247<br /> Alison Booth</p>
<p>19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262<br /> Daniel Hack</p>
<p>Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277</p>
<p>20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279<br /> T. H. Irwin</p>
<p>21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294<br /> Isobel Armstrong</p>
<p>22 George Eliot and the Law 309<br /> Jan–Melissa Schramm</p>
<p>23 George Eliot and Finance 323<br /> Nancy Henry</p>
<p>24 George Eliot and Politics 338<br /> Carolyn Lesjak</p>
<p>25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot s Villages 353<br /> Josephine McDonagh</p>
<p>26 George Eliot s Liberalism 370<br /> Daniel S. Malachuk</p>
<p>27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385<br /> Laura Green</p>
<p>28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400<br /> Bruce Robbins</p>
<p>29 The Continental Eliot 413<br /> Hina Nazar</p>
<p>30 George Eliot and Secularism 428<br /> Simon During</p>
<p>31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442<br /> Amanda Anderson</p>
<p>32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457<br /> Jill L. Matus</p>
<p>33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471<br /> Ian Duncan</p>
<p>34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486<br /> Jonathan Loesberg</p>
<p>Index 500</p>