A Companion to George Eliot

Notes on Contributors ix
 
Introduction 1
Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw
 
Part I: Imaginative Form and Literary Context 19
 
1 Eliot and Narrative 21
Monika Fludernik
 
2 Metaphor and Masque 35
Michael Wood
 
3 "It Is of Little Use for Me to Tell You": George Eliot's Narrative Refusals 46
Robyn Warhol
 
4 Surprising Realism 62
Caroline Levine
 
5 Two Flowers: George Eliot's Diagrams and the Modern Novel 76
John Plotz
 
Part II: Works 91
 
6 Scenes of Clerical Life and Silas Marner: Moral Fables 93
Stefanie Markovits
 
7 Adam Bede: History's Maggots 105
Rae Greiner
 
8 The Mill on the Floss and "The Lifted Veil": Prediction, Prevention, Protection 117
Adela Pinch
 
9 Romola: Historical Narration and the Communicative Dynamics of Modernity 129
David Wayne Thomas
 
10 Felix Holt: Love in the Time of Politics 141
David Kurnick
 
11 Middlemarch: January in Lowick 153
Andrew H. Miller
 
12 Daniel Deronda: Late Form, or After Middlemarch 166
Alex Woloch
 
13 Poetry: The Unappreciated Eliot 178
Herbert F. Tucker
 
14 Essays: Essay v. Novel (Eliot, Aloof) 192
Jeff Nunokawa
 
15 Impressions of Theophrastus Such: "Not a Story" 204
James Buzard
 
Part III: Life and Reception 217
 
16 The Reception of George Eliot 219
James Eli Adams
 
17 George Eliot Among Her Contemporaries: A Life Apart 233
Lynn Voskuil
 
18 Feminist George Eliot Comes from the United States 247
Alison Booth
 
19 Transatlantic Eliot: African American Connections 262
Daniel Hack
 
Part IV: Eliot in Her Time and Ours: Intellectual and Cultural Contexts 277
 
20 Sympathy and the Basis of Morality 279
T. H. Irwin
 
21 George Eliot, Spinoza, and the Emotions 294
Isobel Armstrong
 
22 George Eliot and the Law 309
Jan-Melissa Schramm
 
23 George Eliot and Finance 323
Nancy Henry
 
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Amanda Anderson 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 The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (2006), The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (2001), and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (1993). Prof Anderson has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (2002).
 
Harry E. Shaw 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 The Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and his Successors (1983) and Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (1999), and co-author of Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot 2008.

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