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200 10$aModernizing George Eliot $ethe writer as artist, intellectual, proto-modernist, cultural critic /$fK. M. Newton
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2011.
215   $a1 online resource (viii, 230 pages)
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 216-225) and index.
327   $a1. Eliot's critique of Darwinism -- 2. Eliot and the Byronic -- 3. Eliot and moral philosophy: Kant and The mill on the floss -- 4. The role of the narrator in Eliot's fiction, especially Middlemarch -- 5. Prototypes and symbolism in Middlemarch -- 6. Anticipations of modernism in Eliot's fiction -- 7. Realism and romance: allusion and intertextuality in Daniel Deronda -- 8. Circumcision, realism and irony in Daniel Deronda -- 9. Formal experiment and ideological critique: Silas Marner and 'victorian values' -- 10. The post-colonial critique of Eliot: is Edward Said right about Daniel Deronda? -- 11. Eliot and racism: how should one read 'The modern hep! hep! hep!'? -- 12. Eliot and Derrida: an elective affinity? -- 13. The role of luck in the arts, ethics and politics of Daniel Deronda
330   $aGeorge Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian context and intellectual framework. This book examines the ways in which her work anticipates significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and indeed twenty first century in regard to both art and philosophy. This new book presents a series of linked essays exploring Eliot's credentials as a radical thinker. Opening with her relationship to the Romantic tradition, Newton goes on to discuss her reading of Darwinism, her radical critique of Victorian values and her affiliation with the modernists. The final essays discuss her work in relation to Derridean themes and to Bernard Williams' concept of moral luck. What emerges is a very different Eliot from the conservative figure portrayed in much critical literature.
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