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A Companion to George Eliot


A Companion to George Eliot


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Amanda Anderson, Harry E. Shaw

32,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 19.03.2013
ISBN/EAN: 9781118542330
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 544

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<p>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.</p> <ul> <li>A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholars </li> <li>Offers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot’s work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aesthetics  </li> <li>Reflects the very latest developments in  literary scholarship</li> <li>Traces the revealing links between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual ­concerns and those of today</li> </ul>
Notes on Contributors ix <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw</i></p> <p><b>Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19</b></p> <p>1 Eliot and Narrative 21<br /><i>Monika Fludernik</i></p> <p>2 Metaphor and Masque 35<br /><i>Michael Wood</i></p> <p>3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46<br /><i>Robyn Warhol</i></p> <p>4 Surprising Realism 62<br /><i>Caroline Levine</i></p> <p>5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76<br /><i>John Plotz</i></p> <p><b>Part II: Works 91</b></p> <p>6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93<br /><i>Stefanie Markovits</i></p> <p>7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105<br /><i>Rae Greiner</i></p> <p>8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117<br /><i>Adela Pinch</i></p> <p>9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129<br /><i>David Wayne Thomas</i></p> <p>10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141<br /><i>David Kurnick</i></p> <p>11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153<br /><i>Andrew H. Miller</i></p> <p>12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166<br /><i>Alex Woloch</i></p> <p>13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178<br /><i>Herbert F. Tucker</i></p> <p>14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192<br /><i>Jeff Nunokawa</i></p> <p>15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204<br /><i>James Buzard</i></p> <p><b>Part III: Life and Reception 217</b></p> <p>16 The Reception of George Eliot 219<br /><i>James Eli Adams</i></p> <p>17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233<br /><i>Lynn Voskuil</i></p> <p>18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247<br /><i>Alison Booth</i></p> <p>19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262<br /><i>Daniel Hack</i></p> <p><b>Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277</b></p> <p>20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279<br /><i>T. H. Irwin</i></p> <p>21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294<br /><i>Isobel Armstrong</i></p> <p>22 George Eliot and the Law 309<br /><i>Jan-Melissa Schramm</i></p> <p>23 George Eliot and Finance 323<br /><i>Nancy Henry</i></p> <p>24 George Eliot and Politics 338<br /><i>Carolyn Lesjak</i></p> <p>25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353<br /><i>Josephine McDonagh</i></p> <p>26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370<br /><i>Daniel S. Malachuk</i></p> <p>27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385<br /><i>Laura Green</i></p> <p>28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400<br /><i>Bruce Robbins</i></p> <p>29 The Continental Eliot 413<br /><i>Hina Nazar</i></p> <p>30 George Eliot and Secularism 428<br /><i>Simon During</i></p> <p>31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442<br /><i>Amanda Anderson</i></p> <p>32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457<br /><i>Jill L. Matus</i></p> <p>33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471<br /><i>Ian Duncan</i></p> <p>34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486<br /><i>Jonathan Loesberg</i></p> <p>Index 500</p>
<p>“<i>A Companion to George Eliot </i>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 <i>Romola</i>, <i>Felix Holt,</i> <i>the Radical</i>, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials … Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers.” <b>Reference Reviews</b> <br /><br />“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.” <b>CHOICE</b></p>
<p><b>Amanda Anderson</b> is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, USA, and Director of the School of Criticism and Theory. Prior to joining the Brown faculty in 2012, she taught at Johns Hopkins University, where she served as department chair from 2003–2009. She is the author of <i>The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory</i> (2006), <i>The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment</i> (2001), and <i>Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture</i> (1993). Prof Anderson has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, <i>Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle</i> (2002).</p> <p><b>Harry E. Shaw</b> is Professor of English at Cornell University, USA, where he has been teaching since 1978. Specializing in nineteenth-century English novels and narrative poetics, he explores the influence of the British novel on the rise of historical consciousness in Europe, and the ways in which novels help us conceptualize our place in history. He is the author of <i>The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors</i> (1983) and <i>Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot</i> (1999), and co-author of <i>Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot 2008.</i></p>
<p>George Eliot is widely viewed as the finest English novelist of the nineteenth century, the era in which the form reached its zenith. Her voluminous output, matched by an equally unbounded intellectual depth and nuanced social commentary, brims with insight into every aspect of culture and society, moving effortlessly between topics including religion, ethics, the law, finance, politics, science and aesthetics. The essays in this collection offer students and scholars of her work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, that reflects the latest developments in literary criticism. The contributors, all leading Eliot scholars, draw on some of the most innovative work in the field, exploring the relation between Eliot’s concerns and those of our own era, and  assessing her work in the context of contemporary academic interests such as religion and secularism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism, and ethics and aesthetics. </p>

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