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The Myth of George Eliot : How Marian Evans Invented the Victorian Novelist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grego, Alessandra.
- Series:
- 21st Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The Myth of George Eliot" shows how Marian Evans understood the power of collective stories to change society, and suggests that her turn to fiction, after ten years as a professional translator, editor and journalist, was motivated by the desire to participate in an ethical revolution to imagine a broader future for the nation.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Monstrous Author Disembodied
- Marian Evans or George Eliot
- The Myth of George Eliot
- Part I Myth and Common Sense
- 1 Writing and Translating
- The Political Essence of Higher Criticism
- David Friedrich Strauss: New Boundaries
- Ludwig Feuerbach: Spiritual Marriages
- Baruch Spinoza: Ethics as Practice, Religion as Common Sense
- Vico: Myth in History and The Modifications of the Human Mind
- The Futility of Embalming Dead Bodies
- 2 Vanishing
- George Eliot: A Monster by Any Other Name
- Truth in Excess
- Living in Other People's Opinions or The Manx Cat
- 3 Surfacing
- The Eminent Narrator
- The Writer as Nobody
- How to Slay a Myth
- Part II Demythologising - Remythologising
- 4 Knights
- The Victorian Knight
- The Common Sense of Social Compromise
- The Violence of Common Sense
- The Champion of Common Sense
- The Masque of Common Sense
- 5 Damsels
- The Surprising Power of the Mere Playthings of Fate
- The Cloven Maiden
- The Artificial Songbird
- The Princess in Exile
- 6 Ordinary Sinners
- 7 Parrhesia
- Maggie: The River
- Dorothea: The Brook
- Conclusion: Truckling to the Smile of the World
- The Recalcitrant Reader
- Impressions: The Matter of the Text
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-43136-4
- 9781003431367
- OCLC:
- 1557781259
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000302021
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