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George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations A Reading of the Novels 1st Edition by David Carroll ISBN 0521403669 9780521403665

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Author(s): David Carroll
ISBN(s): 9780521403665, 0521403669
Edition: 1
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Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521403669 
ISBN 13: 9780521403665
Author: David Carroll

Two versions of George Eliot, both influential, have emerged from the study of her life and work. One is the radical Victorian thinker, formidably learned in a whole range of intellectual disciplines; the other is the reclusive novelist, celebrating through her fiction the communal values which were being eroded in the modern world. This chronological study of the novels brings the two together and places her within the crisis of belief and value acted out in the mid-nineteenth century. George Eliot saw this crisis as one of interpretation, in a vivid, almost apocalyptic awareness that traditional modes of interpreting the world were breaking down irrevocably. This study shows how, in response, she redefined the nature of Victorian fiction, testing to the point of destruction a variety of Victorian myths, orthodoxies and ideologies in each of her novels.

George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations A Reading of the Novels 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Uncertainty of Gender: “Adam Bede”

  • The Construction of Gender in Adam Bede

  • Ideological Tensions: Feminism and Traditionalism

  • Reading Hetty Sorrel’s Tragedy

Chapter 2: The Drama of Self-Formation: “The Mill on the Floss”

  • The Theme of Identity and Self-Discovery

  • Maggie Tulliver and the Crisis of Female Subjectivity

  • Interpretations of Maggie’s Transgressions

Chapter 3: Moral Dilemmas and Ethical Conflict: “Silas Marner”

  • The Character of Silas Marner: Redemption and the Individual

  • The Role of Social Networks in Moral Development

  • The Significance of the Ending: A Complicated Resolution

Chapter 4: The Problem of Idealism: “Romola”

  • Historical and Philosophical Contexts in Romola

  • Idealism vs. Realism: The Struggle for Ethical Identity

  • The Tension Between Personal and Public Life

Chapter 5: The Limits of Rationality: “Middlemarch”

  • The Politics of Middlemarch: Marriage, Morality, and Class

  • Dorothea Brooke: Between Idealism and Pragmatism

  • The Novel’s Philosophical and Political Critique

Chapter 6: Narrative and Authority: “Daniel Deronda”

  • The Intersection of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity

  • The Ethical Conflict in Daniel Deronda

  • The Novel’s Complex Ending: Interpretations of Gwendolen Harleth’s Fate

Chapter 7: The Language of Ambiguity: “Felix Holt, the Radical”

  • Radical Politics and the Question of Moral Action

  • The Conflict Between Reform and Revolution

  • The Ambiguity of Felix Holt’s Character

Chapter 8: Reading Eliot’s Novels in the Context of Victorian Society

  • Victorian Ideologies and Their Challenges in Eliot’s Novels

  • The Social and Political Consciousness in Eliot’s Works

  • Eliot’s Treatment of Gender, Class, and Morality

Chapter 9: The Legacy of George Eliot: A Conflict of Interpretations

  • Eliot’s Influence on Literary Criticism and Feminist Thought

  • The Ongoing Relevance of Eliot’s Themes in Contemporary Literary Criticism

  • Re-assessing Eliot’s Place in the Literary Canon

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