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Zusatztext The first three chapters are rich and inventive explorations of the pre-Eliot period?The surprise of chapter 1 lies in its attention to details of layout and organization that made the Westminster Review competitive with other major quarterlies and improved on runs under earlier editors. Informationen zum Autor K.M. Newton is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author or editor of ten books, most recently Modern Literature and the Tragic (2009) and George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels (2002). Zusammenfassung Ken Newton argues that George Eliot's fiction is more innovative than previous critics have admitted, anticipating significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction CHAPTER 1: Eliot's critique of Darwinism CHAPTER 2: Eliot and the The Byronic CHAPTER 3: Eliot and Moral Philosophy: Kant and The Mill on The Floss CHAPTER 4: The Role of The Narrator in Eliot's Novels! Especially Middlemarch CHAPTER 5: Prototypes and Symbolism in Middlemarch CHAPTER 6: Anticipation of Modernism in Eliot's CHAPTER 7: Realism and Romance: Allusion and Intertextuality in Daniel Deronda CHAPTER 8: Circumcision! Realism! and Irony in Daniel Deronda CHAPTER 9: Formal Experiments and Ideological Critique: Silas Marner and 'Victorian Values' CHAPTER 10: The Post-Colonial Critique of Eliot: Is Edward Said Right About Daniel Deronda? CHAPTER 11: Eliot and Racism: How Should one Read 'The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!'? CHAPTER 12: Eliot and Derrida: and Elective Affinity CHAPTER 13: The Role of luck in The Art! Ethics! and Politics of Daniel Deronda
