{"product_id":"a-companion-to-george-eliot-isbn-9781119072478","title":"A Companion to George Eliot","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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 ­exploring the relation between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholars \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot’s work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aesthetics  \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReflects the very latest developments in  literary scholarship\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the revealing links between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual ­concerns and those of today\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Notes on Contributors ix \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Eliot and Narrative 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonika Fludernik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Metaphor and Masque 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 “It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You”: George Eliot’s Narrative Refusals 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobyn Warhol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Surprising Realism 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaroline Levine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Two Flowers: George Eliot’s Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Plotz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Works 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStefanie Markovits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Adam Bede: History’s Maggots 105\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRae Greiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdela Pinch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Wayne Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Kurnick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew H. Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Woloch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerbert F. Tucker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeff Nunokawa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: “Not a Story” 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Buzard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Life and Reception 217\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Reception of George Eliot 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Eli Adams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynn Voskuil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Booth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Hack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT. H. Irwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsobel Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 George Eliot and the Law 309\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan-Melissa Schramm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 George Eliot and Finance 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Henry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 George Eliot and Politics 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarolyn Lesjak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot’s Villages 353\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJosephine McDonagh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 George Eliot’s Liberalism 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel S. Malachuk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Robbins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The Continental Eliot 413\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHina Nazar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 George Eliot and Secularism 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon During\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmanda Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJill L. Matus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan Duncan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Loesberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Companion to George Eliot \u003c\/i\u003eis divided into four parts: Imaginative Form and Literary Context; Works; Life and Reception; Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts … [It] contains insights, on for instance, Eliot’s narratology … to on-going debates on evolution. There are fine essays on relatively neglected works such as \u003ci\u003eRomola\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFelix Holt,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethe Radical\u003c\/i\u003e, and her poetry, as well as the hardy perennials … Recommended for general readers, graduate students, researchers and teachers.” \u003cb\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Many of the literary-critical voices contributing essays … stand out, replete with critical insights on, for instance, Eliot’s narratology, use of form, critical reception, African American connections, awareness of the law, and her relevance today ... The collection offers a very helpful, detailed index. [A] most useful critical reference work … Recommended: Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” \u003cb\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmanda Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e 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 2003–2009. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eThe Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), and \u003ci\u003eTainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). Prof Anderson has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, \u003ci\u003eDisciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle\u003c\/i\u003e (2002).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry E. Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) and \u003ci\u003eNarrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and co-author of \u003ci\u003eReading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot 2008.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot is widely viewed as the finest English novelist of the nineteenth century, the era in which the form reached its zenith. Her voluminous output, matched by an equally unbounded intellectual depth and nuanced social commentary, brims with insight into every aspect of culture and society, moving effortlessly between topics including religion, ethics, the law, finance, politics, science and aesthetics. The essays in this collection offer students and scholars of her work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, that reflects the latest developments in literary criticism. The contributors, all leading Eliot scholars, draw on some of the most innovative work in the field, exploring the relation between Eliot’s concerns and those of our own era, and  assessing her work in the context of contemporary academic interests such as religion and secularism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism, and ethics and aesthetics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988607484133,"sku":"NP9781119072478","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119072478.jpg?v=1761780952","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-george-eliot-isbn-9781119072478","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}