Antipodean George Eliot by Harris, Margaret; Sussman, Matthew;

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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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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.

 “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.”

-John Rignall, University of Warwick (p95: The George Eliot Review 2023, No. 54)

Tartalomjegyzék:

About the Contributors

List of Texts and Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Margaret Harris and Matthew Sussman

Chapter 1: George Eliot Elsewhere

Fionnuala Dillane

Chapter 2: Before Scenes of Clerical Life: Eliot’s 1854-57 Travelogues as Poetic Practice

Julia Kuehn

Chapter 3: George Eliot and ‘the Case of Wagner’: Fabrications and Speculations

Robert Dingley

Chapter 4: The Mill on the Floss and the Novel in Bengal

Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Debashree Dattaray

Chapter 5: A Roar of Sound: George Eliot on Sympathy and the Problem of Other Minds

Moira Gatens

Chapter 6: Sympathy and Alterity: The Ethical Sublime in Romola

Thomas Albrecht

Chapter 7: Reading the Riot Act: The Case of Felix Holt, the Radical

Helen Groth

Chapter 8: Middlemarch and Reform: Looking Back versus ‘The Thick of It’

Joanne Wilkes

Chapter 9: The Grounds of Exception: Liberal Sympathy and Its Limits in Daniel Deronda
and C.H. Pearson’s National Life and Character

Tim Dolin

Chapter 10: Counter Impressions: Ambiguous Habits in Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Penny Horsley

Chapter 11: Impressions of Theophrastus Such and the Limitations of Depth

Matthew Sussman

Works Cited

Index