George Eliot

by Nestor, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780333722015
• ISBN10: 0333722019
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-07
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

Covering all of George Eliot's novels, this book offers a challenging re-assessment of the writer's contribution to the critical debates of her own period and of our time. It examines Eliot's literary exploration of ethics, especially in relation to the negotiation of difference, and demonstrates that through a reading of the novels' complex and sophisticated drama of otherness, her work can be seen as freshly relevant to contemporary debates in feminism, post-colonial studies, psychoanalysis and moral philosophy.

Author Biography

Pauline Nestor is Senior Lecturer in English, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
Introduction	1	(17)
The Making of a Novelist	18	(11)
`My first bit of art': Scenes of Clerical Life	29	(13)
Self-regulation and the Limits of Subjectivity: Adam Bede	42	(13)
`A widening psychology': The Mill on the Floss	55	(18)
The Mystery of Otherness: Silas Marner	73	(15)
Between Two Worlds: Romola	88	(17)
A Politics of Morality: Felix Holt	105	(19)
The `difficult task of knowing another soul': Middlemarch	124	(16)
`The transmutation of the self': Daniel Deronda	140	(16)
Conclusion	156	(7)
Notes	163	(18)
Index	181