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Subject(s)

• Eliot, George 1819-1880—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• English literature—19th century—History and cricitism [Browse]

Editor

• Atkinson, Juliette [Browse]
• Cohn, Elisha [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks online [More in this series]

Summary note

George Eliot repeatedly stressed the aesthetic and ethical importance of viewing subjects from different perspectives. This handbook presents 52 perspectives on this major 19th-century writer. Together, the chapters provide the most wide-ranging collection of essays on Eliot's life and works published to date. While providing fresh perspectives on the important themes running through Eliot's works, the volume is distinctive in placing a concern with literary form at its heart.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 6, 2025).

Contents

• PART I LIFE AND NETWORKS
• 1. George Eliot's Life-​Writing
• 2. George Eliot among Evangelicals, Dissenters, and Freethinkers
• 3. Marian Evans, 'George Eliot', and Nineteenth-​Century Media Communities
• 4. George Eliot among Philosophers and Scientists
• 5. George Eliot and Contemporary Writers
• 6. George Eliot Abroad
• PART II INFLUENCES
• 7. George Eliot and the Classics
• 8. George Eliot and Early Modern Practical Divinity
• 9. George Eliot, Dante, and Milton
• 10. George Eliot and Shakespeare
• 11. George Eliot and Eighteenth-​Century and Romantic Fiction
• 12. George Eliot and Wordsworth
• 13. George Eliot and Goethe
• 14. George Eliot and French Literature
• 15. George Eliot and the Visual Arts
• 16. George Eliot and Music
• PART III WORKS
• 17. George Eliot's Notebooks
• 18. George Eliot's Manuscripts
• 19. George Eliot's Letters
• 20. George Eliot's Journals
• 21. George Eliot's Essays
• 22. George Eliot's Translations
• 23. George Eliot's Poetry
• 24. Scenes of Clerical Life: The Genealogy of George Eliot's Realism
• 25. 'The Lifted Veil', 'Brother Jacob', and Short Form
• 26. Adam Bede and Work
• 27. The Mill on the Floss and Intimacy
• 28. Silas Marner and Affect
• 29. Romola and Presentism
• 30. Felix Holt and the Politics of 'Middle England'
• 31. The Intersectional Spanish Gypsy
• 32. Distantly Reading Middlemarch
• 33. Daniel Deronda and the Forms of Belonging
• 34. George Eliot's Late Style: Impressions of Theophrastus Such
• PART IV FORM
• 35. Revisiting George Eliot's Realism
• 36. Tragedy, Comedy, and George Eliot
• 37. George Eliot and Theatricality
• 38. George Eliot's Omniscient Narrator
• 39. George Eliot's Dialogue
• 40. George Eliot and Character
• 41. George Eliot's Rhythms
• 42. George Eliot's Grammar
• 43. George Eliot and Metaphor
• 44. Aphorisms and Maxims in George Eliot
• PART V AFTERLIVES
• 45. George Eliot's Modern Forms
• 46. Locating the Gendered Reception of George Eliot, 1880-​1930
• 47. George Eliot's East Asian Afterlives
• 48. Perspectives on Middlemarch: Middlemarch and Contemporary Fiction
• 49. Perspectives on Middlemarch: Middlemarch and the Value of the Humanities
• 50. Perspectives on Middlemarch: Middlemarch as World Literature
• 51. Perspectives on Middlemarch: Middlemarch and the Art/​Work of Philosophy
• 52. Perspectives on Middlemarch: Two Middlemarch Sentences.

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Other title(s)

• Handbook of George Eliot
• George Eliot

ISBN

• 9780191947209 (ebook)
• 0191947202
• 9780192670489 ((electronic bk.))
• 0192670484 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1494970787

Doi

• 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856593.001.0001

Other standard number

• CIPO000195434

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