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 24 George Eliot and Politics 338 Carolyn Lesjak 25 Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot's Villages 353 Josephine McDonagh 26 George Eliot's Liberalism 370 Daniel S. Malachuk 27 George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality 385 Laura Green 28 The Cosmopolitan Eliot 400 Bruce Robbins 29 The Continental Eliot 413 Hina Nazar 30 George Eliot and Secularism 428 Simon During 31 Living Theory: Personality and Doctrine in Eliot 442 Amanda Anderson 32 George Eliot and the Sciences of Mind: The Silence that Lies on the Other Side of Roar 457 Jill L. Matus 33 George Eliot and the Science of the Human 471 Ian Duncan 34 Eliot, Evolution, and Aesthetics 486 Jonathan Loesberg Index 500