George Eliot and Her Women

George Eliot and Her Women explores George Eliot's engagement with gender, her representation of female characters, and her attitudes towards women's issues during her lifetime. Examining the construction of her female characters throughout her prose fiction and poetry, it argues that Eliot powerfully advocated for women in her creative works.

List of contents

Chapter 1
Becoming George Eliot: Gender Criticism and Authorial Identity
Chapter 2
Gender and Genre in Scenes of Clerical Life
Chapter 3
Mirroring Reality: Hetty's Marginalization in Adam Bede
Chapter 4
Spoilt and Spoiling Women in "The Lifted Veil" and "Brother Jacob"
Chapter 5
Patriarchal Power and Sexual Desire in The Mill on the Floss
Chapter 6
Missing Women and Absent Mothers: Queer Parents and Female Agency in Silas Marner
Chapter 7
Formal Challenges of Gender, Race, and Class in Romola
Chapter 8
Inheritance and Othering in Felix Holt
Chapter 9
Tragic Destiny in The Spanish Gypsy
Chapter 10
Poetry and Performance: Gender and Narrative in Eliot's Shorter Poetry
Chapter 11
Marriage and Miseducation In Middlemarch
Chapter 12
Agency, Artistry, and Asexuality in Daniel Deronda

About the author

Charlotte Fiehn

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Fiehn
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9781793646934
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-693-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls