Antipodean George Eliot

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-42451-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: The Nineteenth Century Series

In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career—from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such—Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot’s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harris, Margaret

Sussman, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Contributors

List of Texts and Abbreviations

Acknowledgements



Introduction

Margaret Harris and Matthew Sussman



Chapter 1: George Eliot Elsewhere

Fionnuala Dillane



Chapter 2: Before Scenes of Clerical Life: Eliot’s 1854-57 Travelogues as Poetic Practice

Julia Kuehn



Chapter 3: George Eliot and ‘the Case of Wagner’: Fabrications and Speculations

Robert Dingley



Chapter 4: The Mill on the Floss and the Novel in Bengal

Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Debashree Dattaray



Chapter 5: A Roar of Sound: George Eliot on Sympathy and the Problem of Other Minds

Moira Gatens



Chapter 6: Sympathy and Alterity: The Ethical Sublime in Romola

Thomas Albrecht



Chapter 7: Reading the Riot Act: The Case of Felix Holt, the Radical

Helen Groth



Chapter 8: Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back versus ‘The Thick of It’

Joanne Wilkes



Chapter 9: The Grounds of Exception: Liberal Sympathy and Its Limits in Daniel Deronda
and C.H. Pearson’s National Life and Character

Tim Dolin



Chapter 10: Counter Impressions: Ambiguous Habits in Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Penny Horsley



Chapter 11: Impressions of Theophrastus Such and the Limitations of Depth

Matthew Sussman



Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Harris is Challis Professor of English Literature Emerita, The University of Sydney. She edited The Journals of George Eliot (with Judith Johnston, 1998) and George Eliot in Context (2013). Her other publications include studies of Victorian fiction, especially that of George Meredith.

Matthew Sussman is Senior Lecturer in English at The University of Sydney. He is the author of Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel (2021), as well as articles on Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Matthew Arnold.