Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; Cover Illustration; A History of Eliot's Reader Reception; A Mid-Twentieth-Century Memoir by Thomas Pinney; The Late Twentieth Century Onward; The Essays in This Collection; Bibliography; Part I Periodical Studies and History of the Book; Chapter 2 "A Thousand Tit-Bits": George Eliot and the New Journalism; Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings; Tit-Bits of Literary Wisdom; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3 George Eliot's Literary Legacy: Poetic Perception and Self-Fashioning in the 1870s; Bibliography
Accomplished Egyptian: Returning to Moses as Hero in Daniel DerondaBibliography; Part III Eliot and Victorian Science; Chapter 6 Organic Realism in Middlemarch; Lewes Elucidates; The Victorian Context of Eliot's Organic Realism; Character Relations; Good Vibrations; The Moral Divide: "Molecules" vs. "Immoral Fiction"; Dorothea and Will; Bibliography; Chapter 7 "These Things Are a Parable": Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866); Sea-Side Studies, Scenes of Clerical Life, and the Importance of Marine Invertebrates; Impact of Metaphors on Darwin and Huxley's Observations
Chapter 11 The Ambivalence of Water in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)The Ambiguity of the River Floss; The River as a Metaphor for Human Life; Maggie's Symbolical Drift into Temptation; The River Passes Its Judgment; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part V Gender Studies and Feminism; Chapter 12 Hints of Same-Sex Attraction and Transgender Traits in George Eliot's Characters; Bibliography; Chapter 13 "Upright Realism": The Influence of George Eliot on Polish Literature; An Outline of Reception; George Eliot Versus Polish Novelists of the Nineteenth Century: Parallels; Bibliography
Part II Eliot's Research MethodologyChapter 4 George Eliot as "Worthy Scholar": Note Taking and the Composition of Romola; Eliot and the Historical Novel; The Notebooks and Their Sources; Note Taking and the Organization of Information; From Notebook to Manuscript; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Egyptian Mythology in Eliot's Major Works; Egyptian Sorcerer: Moses as Hero and Models for Seeing in Adam Bede; Virgin Queens and Gypsy Sphinxes: The Mill on the Floss and Spanish Gypsy; Living Saints and Dead Mummies: Romola and Middlemarch
Professionalization of ScienceThe Hedgerow Metaphor in Felix Holt; Natural History and Character Behavior; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Handling George Eliot's Fiction; Secular Sympathy in Romola; Manual Kinship in Daniel Deronda; Bibliography; Part IV Animals and Environmental Studies; Chapter 9 "It Was All over with Wildfire": Horse Accidents in George Eliot's Fiction; Bibliography; Chapter 10 The Functions of Dogs in George Eliot's Fiction; Scenes of Clerical Life; Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Bibliography
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This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on Eliot's vast interests and knowledge, informed by the nineteenth-century British culture in which she lived. Examining Eliot's wide-ranging engagement with Victorian historical research, periodicals, poetry, mythology, natural history, realism, the body, gender relations, and animal studies, these essays construct an exciting new interdisciplinary agenda for future Eliot studies.
George Eliot.
9783030106256
Eliot, George,1819-1880-- Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George,1819-1880.
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.