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List of contents
Introduction: Definition of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic
Chapter One: Development of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic
Chapter Two: The Word Made Flesh
Chapter Three: Self-Concept, Music, and Art
Chapter Four: Paradigms of Moral Atrophy and Growth
Chapter Five: Chosen by Hereditary Forces to be Other
Chapter Six: Contrasting Pairs, Mirrors, and Windows
Chapter Seven: Family Relationships and Jewelry
Chapter Eight: Collectors and Collections of Clerics
Chapter Nine: Political Reformers
Chapter Ten: Scenes Involving Animals
Chapter Eleven: Sacramental Scenes
Chapter Twelve: Wills and Inheritance
Chapter Thirteen: Forgiveness and the Law of LoveAppendix Excerpts: "Historic Guidance" and "Notes on The Spanish Gypsy"
About the author
Constance M. Fulmer is Professor of Victorian Literature and holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair in English Literature at Seaver College, Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is working on a biography of Edith J. Simcox, and with Margaret E. Barfield, edited A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox’s Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (Garland, 1998). She has also published several articles on George Eliot and on Edith Simcox and an annotated bibliography of George Eliot criticism (G.K. Hall, 1977). She serves on the board of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States and is active in the British Women Writers Association. Her Ph.D. is from Vanderbilt University. She has been at Pepperdine since 1990 and served as Associate Dean of Seaver College from 2007 to 2016 and for eight years as Divisional Dean.
Summary
This volume aims to investigate Eliot’s ethical and artistic principles; Dr. Fulmer illuminates the contradictions in George Eliot’s life and philosophy by focusing on Eliot's use of animals, mirrors, and other tangible images in her work.
