Transdisciplinary approach opens up fresh perspectives and avenues of enquiry into Eliot's work
Features essays by scholars with established records in Eliot studies, in addition to new scholarship by emerging scholars
Addresses natural history, mythology, social reform, the world of nature, gender studies, representations of Eliot’s writing in periodicals, poetry, international translation, materialist theory, and Eliot’s own research and experience of Italy and its history

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Source title: George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays (Bicentennial Collection)

Contents 5
Notes on Contributors 8
List of Figures 11
Chapter 1 Introduction 13
Cover Illustration 13
A History of Eliot’s Reader Reception 15
A Mid-Twentieth-Century Memoir by Thomas Pinney 16
The Late Twentieth Century Onward 20
The Essays in This Collection 21
Bibliography 26
Part I Periodical Studies and History of the Book 28
Chapter 2 “A Thousand Tit-Bits”: George Eliot and the New Journalism 29
Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings 31
Tit-Bits of Literary Wisdom 40
Conclusion 44
Bibliography 49
Chapter 3 George Eliot’s Literary Legacy: Poetic Perception and Self-Fashioning in the 1870s 51
Bibliography 67
Part II Eliot’s Research Methodology 70
Chapter 4 George Eliot as “Worthy Scholar”: Note Taking and the Composition of Romola 71
Eliot and the Historical Novel 72
The Notebooks and Their Sources 74
Note Taking and the Organization of Information 78
From Notebook to Manuscript 88
Bibliography 99
Chapter 5 Egyptian Mythology in Eliot’s Major Works 104
Egyptian Sorcerer: Moses as Hero and Models for Seeing in Adam Bede 106
Virgin Queens and Gypsy Sphinxes: The Mill on the Floss and Spanish Gypsy 109
Living Saints and Dead Mummies: Romola and Middlemarch 112
Accomplished Egyptian: Returning to Moses as Hero in Daniel Deronda 114
Bibliography 120
Part III Eliot and Victorian Science 123
Chapter 6 Organic Realism in Middlemarch 124
Lewes Elucidates 126
The Victorian Context of Eliot’s Organic Realism 126
Character Relations 128
Good Vibrations 129
The Moral Divide: “Molecules” vs. “Immoral Fiction” 131
Dorothea and Will 134
Bibliography 140
Chapter 7 “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) 143
Sea-Side Studies, Scenes of Clerical Life, and the Importance of Marine Invertebrates 147
Impact of Metaphors on Darwin and Huxley’s Observations 149
Professionalization of Science 152
The Hedgerow Metaphor in Felix Holt 155
Natural History and Character Behavior 160
Bibliography 166
Chapter 8 Handling George Eliot’s Fiction 169
Secular Sympathy in Romola 174
Manual Kinship in Daniel Deronda 183
Bibliography 194
Part IV Animals and Environmental Studies 198
Chapter 9 “It Was All over with Wildfire”: Horse Accidents in George Eliot’s Fiction 199
Bibliography 211
Chapter 10 The Functions of Dogs in George Eliot’s Fiction 214
Scenes of Clerical Life 216
Adam Bede 218
The Mill on the Floss 223
Middlemarch 225
Bibliography 228
Chapter 11 The Ambivalence of Water in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) 231
The Ambiguity of the River Floss 232
The River as a Metaphor for Human Life 234
Maggie’s Symbolical Drift into Temptation 236
The River Passes Its Judgment 238
Conclusion 242
Bibliography 243
Part V Gender Studies and Feminism 244
Chapter 12 Hints of Same-Sex Attraction and Transgender Traits in George Eliot’s Characters 245
Bibliography 262
Chapter 13 “Upright Realism”: The Influence of George Eliot on Polish Literature 264
An Outline of Reception 267
George Eliot Versus Polish Novelists of the Nineteenth Century: Parallels 275
Bibliography 288
Bibliography 295
Index 317

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Jean Arnold, Lila Marz Harper, Thomas Pinney)....Pages 1-15
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
“A Thousand Tit-Bits”: George Eliot and the New Journalism (Alexis Easley)....Pages 19-40
George Eliot’s Literary Legacy: Poetic Perception and Self-Fashioning in the 1870s (Wendy S. Williams)....Pages 41-59
Front Matter ....Pages 61-61
George Eliot as “Worthy Scholar”: Note Taking and the Composition of Romola (Andrew Thompson)....Pages 63-95
Egyptian Mythology in Eliot’s Major Works (Molly Youngkin)....Pages 97-115
Front Matter ....Pages 117-117
Organic Realism in Middlemarch (Jean Arnold)....Pages 119-137
“These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) (Lila Marz Harper)....Pages 139-164
Handling George Eliot’s Fiction (Peter J. Capuano)....Pages 165-193
Front Matter ....Pages 195-195
“It Was All over with Wildfire”: Horse Accidents in George Eliot’s Fiction (Nancy Henry)....Pages 197-211
The Functions of Dogs in George Eliot’s Fiction (Sara Håkansson)....Pages 213-229
The Ambivalence of Water in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) (Odile Boucher-Rivalain)....Pages 231-243
Front Matter ....Pages 245-245
Hints of Same-Sex Attraction and Transgender Traits in George Eliot’s Characters (Constance M. Fulmer)....Pages 247-265
“Upright Realism”: The Influence of George Eliot on Polish Literature (Aleksandra Budrewicz)....Pages 267-297
Back Matter ....Pages 299-330

This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on Eliot’s vast interests and knowledge, informed by the nineteenth-century British culture in which she lived. Examining Eliot’s wide-ranging engagement with Victorian historical research, periodicals, poetry, mythology, natural history, realism, the body, gender relations, and animal studies, these essays construct an exciting new interdisciplinary agenda for future Eliot studies.
About the Author Jean Arnold taught in the Department of English at California State University, San Bernardino, California and at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA. She is author of Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture (2011). Lila Marz Harper is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Central Washington University, USA and Thesis Editor for the Graduate School. She is author of Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation (2001). She edited the Broadview edition of Edwin Abbott's Flatland (2009) and is a Distinguished Bibliographic Indexer and Section Head for the MLA International Bibliography .

2019-03-20