George Eliot's Moral Aesthetic: Compelling Contradictions

ISBN-13: 9780367664596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Constance Fulmer

Opis

This volume aims to investigate Eliot’s ethical and artistic principles; Dr. Fulmer illuminates the contradictions in George Eliot’s life and philosophy by focusing on Eliot's use of animals, mirrors, and other tangible images in her work.

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Introduction: Definition of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic

Chapter One: Development of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic

Chapter Two: The Word Made Flesh

Chapter Three: Self-Concept, Music, and Art

Chapter Four: Paradigms of Moral Atrophy and Growth

Chapter Five: Chosen by Hereditary Forces to be Other

Chapter Six: Contrasting Pairs, Mirrors, and Windows

Chapter Seven: Family Relationships and Jewelry

Chapter Eight: Collectors and Collections of Clerics

Chapter Nine: Political Reformers

Chapter Ten: Scenes Involving Animals

Chapter Eleven: Sacramental Scenes

Chapter Twelve: Wills and Inheritance

Chapter Thirteen: Forgiveness and the Law of LoveAppendix Excerpts: "Historic Guidance" and "Notes on The Spanish Gypsy"

O autorze

Constance M. Fulmer is Professor of Victorian Literature and holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair in English Literature at Seaver College, Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is working on a biography of Edith J. Simcox, and with Margaret E. Barfield, edited A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox’s Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (Garland, 1998). She has also published several articles on George Eliot and on Edith Simcox and an annotated bibliography of George Eliot criticism (G.K. Hall, 1977). She serves on the board of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States and is active in the British Women Writers Association. Her Ph.D. is from Vanderbilt University. She has been at Pepperdine since 1990 and served as Associate Dean of Seaver College from 2007 to 2016 and for eight years as Divisional Dean.