Modernizing George Eliot : the writer as artist, intellectual, proto-modernist, cultural critic / / K.M. Newton.
Ken Newton argues that George Eliot's fiction is more innovative than previous critics have admitted, anticipating significant aspects of writing in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 230 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction CHAPTER 1: Eliot's critique of Darwinism CHAPTER 2: Eliot and the The Byronic CHAPTER 3: Eliot and Moral Philosophy: Kant and The Mill on The Floss CHAPTER 4: The Role of The Narrator in Eliot's Novels, Especially Middlemarch CHAPTER 5: Prototypes and Symbolism in Middlemarch CHAPTER 6: Anticipation of Modernism in Eliot's CHAPTER 7: Realism and Romance: Allusion and Intertextuality in Daniel Deronda CHAPTER 8: Circumcision, Realism, and Irony in Daniel Deronda CHAPTER 9: Formal Experiments and Ideological Critique: Silas Marner and 'Victorian Values' CHAPTER 10: The Post-Colonial Critique of Eliot: Is Edward Said Right About Daniel Deronda? CHAPTER 11: Eliot and Racism: How Should one Read 'The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!'? CHAPTER 12: Eliot and Derrida: and Elective Affinity CHAPTER 13: The Role of luck in The Art, Ethics, and Politics of Daniel Deronda