<p> “This is a stimulating collection which demonstrates the vitality of George Eliot scholarship in the Antipodes and beyond, and it is at the same time a tribute to the inexhaustible richness of her writing….a handsomely produced work for which the editors and the publisher should be congratulated.”</p><p>-John Rignall, University of Warwick (p95: The George Eliot Review 2023, No. 54)</p>

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.
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With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career, this volume considers 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.
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About the ContributorsList of Texts and AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMargaret Harris and Matthew SussmanChapter 1: George Eliot ElsewhereFionnuala DillaneChapter 2: Before Scenes of Clerical Life: Eliot’s 1854-57 Travelogues as Poetic PracticeJulia KuehnChapter 3: George Eliot and ‘the Case of Wagner’: Fabrications and SpeculationsRobert DingleyChapter 4: The Mill on the Floss and the Novel in BengalSneha Kar Chaudhuri and Debashree DattarayChapter 5: A Roar of Sound: George Eliot on Sympathy and the Problem of Other MindsMoira GatensChapter 6: Sympathy and Alterity: The Ethical Sublime in RomolaThomas AlbrechtChapter 7: Reading the Riot Act: The Case of Felix Holt, the RadicalHelen GrothChapter 8: Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back versus ‘The Thick of It’Joanne WilkesChapter 9: The Grounds of Exception: Liberal Sympathy and Its Limits in Daniel Deronda and C.H. Pearson’s National Life and CharacterTim DolinChapter 10: Counter Impressions: Ambiguous Habits in Impressions of Theophrastus SuchPenny HorsleyChapter 11: Impressions of Theophrastus Such and the Limitations of DepthMatthew SussmanWorks CitedIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781032424514
Publisert
2022-12-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
220

Om bidragsyterne

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.