George Eliot and the British Empire
George Eliot and the British Empire

Author: Nancy Henry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-01-17

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1139432699

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In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons, and a reader of colonial literature. She highlights the importance of these contexts to our understanding of both Eliot's fiction and her situation within Victorian culture. Henry argues that Eliot's decision to represent the empire only as it infiltrated the imaginations and domestic lives of her characters illuminates the nature of her Realism. The book also re-examines the assumptions of postcolonial criticism about Victorian fiction and its relation to empire.

The Life of George Eliot
The Life of George Eliot

Author: Nancy Henry

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1118917677

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The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work. A fresh look at George Eliot's captivating life story Includes original new analysis of her writing Deploys the latest biographical research Combines literary criticism with biographical narrative to offer a rounded perspective

Postcolonial George Eliot
Postcolonial George Eliot

Author: Oliver Lovesey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-17

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1137332123

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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.

Understanding the British Empire
Understanding the British Empire

Author: Ronald Hyam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-05-20

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 0521115221

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A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.

George Eliot (Authors in Context)
George Eliot (Authors in Context)

Author: Tim Dolin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005-01-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0192840479

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In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the variety of ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers, tourists, cinema-goers, and television viewers. The book includes a chronology of Eliot's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.

Antipodean George Eliot
Antipodean George Eliot

Author: Margaret Harris

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1000829790

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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.

George Eliot and Money
George Eliot and Money

Author: Dermot Coleman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1107057213

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This book examines George Eliot's understanding of money and economics within the context of the ethics of economics in nineteenth-century England.

Modernizing George Eliot
Modernizing George Eliot

Author: K.M. Newton

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1849664994

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George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian context and intellectual framework. This book examines the ways in which her work anticipates significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and indeed twenty first century in regard to both art and philosophy. This new book presents a series of linked essays exploring Eliot's credentials as a radical thinker. Opening with her relationship to the Romantic tradition, Newton goes on to discuss her reading of Darwinism, her radical critique of Victorian values and her affiliation with the modernists. The final essays discuss her work in relation to Derridean themes and to Bernard Williams' concept of moral luck. What emerges is a very different Eliot from the conservative figure portrayed in much critical literature.