Companion to George Eliot.
Title:
Companion to George Eliot.
Author:
Anderson, Amanda.
ISBN:
9781118542330
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (533 pages)
Series:
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Imaginative Form and Literary Context -- Works -- Life and Reception -- Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts -- Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context -- 1: Eliot and Narrative -- References -- 2: Metaphor and Masque -- References -- 3: "It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You": George Eliot's Narrative Refusals -- Unnarration and Disnarration -- The Subnarratable: What Needn't Be Told Because It's Normal -- The Supranarratable: What Can't Be Told Because It's Ineffable -- References -- 4: Surprising Realism -- Sympathy and Knowledge -- Realist Surprises -- Realism's Plots -- References -- 5: Two Flowers: George Eliot's Diagrams and the Modern Novel -- Viewpoints -- Time Slips, Focal Shifts -- Impressions of Theophrastus Such -- Time Slips the Other Way -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Works -- 6: Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables -- Scenes of Clerical Life -- Silas Marner -- References -- 7: Adam Bede: History's Maggots -- References -- 8: The Mill on the Floss and "The Lifted Veil": Prediction, Prevention, Protection -- Introduction: Beginnings and Endings -- The Future in "The Lifted Veil" -- Predicting the End in The Mill on the Floss -- Conclusion: Development, Reading, and the Futures of The Mill on the Floss -- References -- 9: Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity -- References -- 10: Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics -- References -- 11: Middlemarch: January in Lowick -- References -- 12: Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch -- References -- 13: Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot -- Opportune Anomaly -- Soundings -- Pulse Taking -- Amateur Standing -- References -- 14: Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) -- References.
15: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: "Not a Story" -- References -- Part III: Life and Reception -- 16: The Reception of George Eliot -- References -- 17: George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart -- Fellowship and Isolation -- Being "George Eliot" -- References -- 18: Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States -- The George Eliot Question and Feminist Criticism of Women Writers -- Transatlantic Literary Relations and Reform -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, James T. and Annie Fields, and the Brother Question -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Woman Question -- References -- 19: Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections -- Eliot and "the Negro Novel" -- African American Deployments of Eliot -- References -- Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts -- 20: Sympathy and the Basis of Morality -- The Neglect of Sympathy -- Types of Sympathy -- Morality Founded on Emotion, not Principle -- Sympathy: Indicative or Constitutive? -- Sympathy and Accuracy -- The Escape from Moral Stupidity -- The Relation of Sympathy to Morality -- References -- 21: George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions -- Introduction: The Importance of Spinoza -- Traditions of Affect -- Spinoza on Love and Hate -- Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda -- References -- 22: George Eliot and the Law -- Eliot and the Criminal Law -- Eliot and the Civil Law -- References -- 23: George Eliot and Finance -- Beginnings -- Blood and Money -- George Eliot's Wealth -- Of Human Bondage -- Human Transactions -- An Aged Commercial Soul -- References -- 24: George Eliot and Politics -- Everything is "Poltics" -- In Defense of the Common -- The Commons and the World -- References -- 25: Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot's Villages -- Villages Remembered and Imagined -- Village Realism -- Printed Villages, Modern and Ancient -- References.
26: George Eliot's Liberalism -- References -- 27: George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality -- References -- 28: The Cosmopolitan Eliot -- References -- 29: The Continental Eliot -- The Real God-Man -- From God-Man to Historical Women -- References -- 30: George Eliot and Secularism -- References -- 31: Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot -- References -- 32: George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar -- References -- 33: George Eliot and the Science of the Human -- We Belated Historians -- Involuntary, Palpitating Life -- The Natural History of Human Life -- The Limits of Variation -- Shadows of the Coming Race -- References -- 34: Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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