Postcolonial George Eliot

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-33211-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5157 g

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lovesey, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial.- 2. Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede).- 3. George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt's Colonial Subject.- 4. Middlemarch's Colonial Imaginary.- 5. Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library.- Works Cited.

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada. He has authored a number of monographs on George Eliot and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and edited Victorian Social Activists’ Novels, The Mill on the Floss, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi, and a Popular Music and Society special issue: 'Popular Music and the Postcolonial'.