George Eliot
Published in April 1991
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-582-04063-2 (ISBN)
Description
This series aims to take full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by an editorial introduction, individual volumes in the series offer the student a guide to the best theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from Chaucer to the present. In this, the first book in the series, K.M.Newton brings together 13 essays covering the major works of Eliot, but focusing on "The Mill on the Floss", "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda". Among the critical positions represented are British post-structuralism; deconstruction; feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism and new historicism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
further reading, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
443 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-04063-2 (9780582040632)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
George Eliot as the angel of destruction, Sandra M.Gilbert and Susan Gubar; reading writing - Eliot (Adam Bede), J.Hillis Miller; power and knowledge in the "The Lifted Veil"; rhetoric and realism in 19th century fiction - hyperbole in the "Mill on the Floss", Jonathan Arag; men of maxims and the "Mill on the Floss", Mary Jacobus; life's empty pack - notes toward a literary daughteronomy ("Silas Marner"), Sandra M. Gilbert; "Romola" - trauma, memory, and repression, Dianne F.Sadoff; the failure of realism - "Felix Holt", Catherine Gallagher; the end of a meta-language - from George Eliot to "Dubliners" ("Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda"), Colin MacCabe; "Middlemarch" and the idea of the classic realist text, David Lodge; George Eliot - "The Wisdom of Balancing Claims" ("Middlemarch"), D.A.Miller; the decomposition of the elephants - double-reading, "Daniel Deronda" Cynthia Chase; "Daniel Deronda" and circumcision, K.M.Newton.