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A Companion to George Eliot
Amanda Anderson (Edited by), A Anderson (Author), Harry E. Shaw (Edited by)
9781119072478, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 25 December 2015
544 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.5 cm, 0.807 kg
“A Companion to George Eliot is divided into four parts: Imaginative Form and Literary Context; Works; Life and Reception; Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts … [It] contains insights, on for instance, Eliot’s narratology … to on-going debates on evolution. There are fine essays on relatively neglected works such as Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials … Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers.” Reference Reviews
“Many of the literary-critical voices contributing essays … stand out, replete with critical insights on, for instance, Eliot’s narratology, use of form, critical reception, African American connections, awareness of the law, and her relevance today ... The collection offers a very helpful, detailed index. [A] most useful critical reference work … Recommended: Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” CHOICE
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.
Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19 1 Eliot and Narrative 21 2 Metaphor and Masque 35 3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46 4 Surprising Realism 62 5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76 Part II: Works 91 6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93 7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105 8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117 9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129 10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141 11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153 12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166 13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178 14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192 15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204 Part III: Life and Reception 217 16 The Reception of George Eliot 219 17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233 18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247 19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262 Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277 20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279 21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294 22 George Eliot and the Law 309 23 George Eliot and Finance 323 24 George Eliot and Politics 338 25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353 26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370 27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385 28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400 29 The Continental Eliot 413 30 George Eliot and Secularism 428 31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442 32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457 33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471 34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486 Index 500
Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw
Monika Fludernik
Michael Wood
Robyn Warhol
Caroline Levine
John Plotz
Stefanie Markovits
Rae Greiner
Adela Pinch
David Wayne Thomas
David Kurnick
Andrew H. Miller
Alex Woloch
Herbert F. Tucker
Jeff Nunokawa
James Buzard
James Eli Adams
Lynn Voskuil
Alison Booth
Daniel Hack
T. H. Irwin
Isobel Armstrong
Jan-Melissa Schramm
Nancy Henry
Carolyn Lesjak
Josephine McDonagh
Daniel S. Malachuk
Laura Green
Bruce Robbins
Hina Nazar
Simon During
Amanda Anderson
Jill L. Matus
Ian Duncan
Jonathan Loesberg
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
