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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.
List of contents
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
RomolaThomas Albrecht
Chapter 7: Reading the Riot Act: The Case of
Felix Holt, the RadicalHelen 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 CharacterTim Dolin
Chapter 10: Counter Impressions: Ambiguous Habits in
Impressions of Theophrastus SuchPenny Horsley
Chapter 11:
Impressions of Theophrastus Such and the Limitations of Depth
Matthew Sussman
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Margaret Harris is Challis Professor of English Literature Emerita, The University of Sydney. She edited
The Journals of George Eliot (with Judith Johnston, 1998) and
George Eliot in Context (2013). Her other publications include studies of Victorian fiction, especially that of George Meredith.
Matthew Sussman is Senior Lecturer in English at The University of Sydney. He is the author of
Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel (2021), as well as articles on Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Matthew Arnold.
Summary
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.
