A Companion to George Eliot

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 exploring the relation between Eliot s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era. A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholars Offers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot s work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aesthetics Reflects the very latest developments in literary scholarship Traces the revealing links between Eliot s Victorian intellectual concerns and those of today

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot'swork a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including herpoetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments inliterary criticism. It features innovative analysis -exploringthe relation between Eliot's Victorian intellectualsensibilities and those of our own era.* A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliotscholars* Offers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot's workreflecting a broad range of current academic interests, includingreligion, science, ethics, politics, andaesthetics* Reflects the very latest developments in literaryscholarship* Traces the revealing links between Eliot's Victorianintellectual -concerns and those of today

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 279T. H. Irwin21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294Isobel Armstrong22 George Eliot and the Law 309Jan-Melissa Schramm23 George Eliot and Finance 323Nancy Henry24 George Eliot and Politics 338Carolyn Lesjak25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot's Villages 353Josephine McDonagh26 George Eliot's Liberalism 370Daniel S. Malachuk27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385Laura Green28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400Bruce Robbins29 The Continental Eliot 413Hina Nazar30 George Eliot and Secularism 428Simon During31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442Amanda Anderson32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457Jill L. Matus33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471Ian Duncan34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486Jonathan LoesbergIndex 500