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 scholarshipTraces the revealing links between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual ­concerns and those of today
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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.
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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
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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. 
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“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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781119072478
Publisert
2015-12-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Wiley-Blackwell
Vekt
807 gr
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
544

Biographical note

Amanda Anderson 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 The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (1993). Prof Anderson has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (2002).

Harry E. Shaw 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 The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors (1983) and Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (1999), and co-author of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot 2008.