Postcolonial George Eliot

Postcolonial George Eliot / Oliver Lovesey.

"This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot's works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot -- whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India -- and also dismis...

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Main Author: Lovesey, Oliver (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Subjects:
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
Literature: history & criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
British colonies
Literature
Great Britain > Colonies > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial; Victorian Postcolonialism and the Postcolonial Imaginary; George Eliot and Victorian Subalterns; Cosmopolitan George Eliot; Decolonizing Periodization; Chapter 2 Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede); Anthropology and the Postcolonial; Victorian Anthropology and Novelistic Discourse; Scenes of Clerical Life; Henry Martyn; Adam Bede; Chapter 3 George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt 's Colonial Subject); The Journey to the East.
  • George Eliot and Islam in ContextHow Many Wives Had Harold Transome?; Felix Holt's Colonial Subject; Chapter 4 Middlemarch's Colonial Imaginary; Middlemarch's Colonial Contexts; Oriental and Colonial Imagining in Middlemarch; Chapter 5 Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library; The Leavis Tradition; Educational Assessment: Examining the World; Eliot and the Postcolonial Library: Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.

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