A Companion to George Eliot

Amanda Anderson 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2013년 03월 22일 출간

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This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot's work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis shy;exploring the relation between Eliot's Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era.A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholarsOffers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot's work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aestheticsReflects the very latest developments in literary scholarshipTraces the revealing links between Eliot's Victorian intellectual shy;concerns and those of today

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Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Amanda Anderson and Harry E. ShawPart I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 191 Eliot and Narrative 21Monika Fludernik2 Metaphor and Masque 35Michael Wood3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot&'s Narrative Refusals 46Robyn Warhol4 Surprising Realism 62Caroline Levine5 Two Flowers: George Eliot&'s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76John PlotzPart II: Works 916 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93Stefanie Markovits7 Adam Bede: History&'s Maggots 105Rae Greiner8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117Adela Pinch9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129David Wayne Thomas10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141David Kurnick11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153Andrew H. Miller12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166Alex Woloch13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178Herbert F. Tucker14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192Jeff Nunokawa15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204James BuzardPart III: Life and Reception 21716 The Reception of George Eliot 219James Eli Adams17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233Lynn Voskuil18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247Alison Booth19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262Daniel HackPart IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 27720 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 2

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“Summing Up: Recommended.& Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.”& (Choice, 1 November 2013)

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저자(글) Amanda Anderson

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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 2003n-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 Siegrave;cle (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.