The Ethical Vision of George Eliot

ISBN-13: 9781032175683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Thomas Albrecht

Opis

Through meticulous close readings of Eliot’s fiction, essays, and letters, The Ethical Vision of George Eliot presents an original, complex definition of her ethical vision as she developed it over the course of her career.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Introduction – Communion and Difference in the Ethical Relationship

Chapter One – The Defective Mirror: The Ethics of Realism in Adam Bede and "The Natural History of German Life"

Chapter Two – The Pier Glass Effect: Narrative Ethics in Middlemarch

Chapter Three – Egoism and Empathy in Middlemarch

Chapter Four – "The Balance of Separateness and Communication": Cosmopolitan Ethics in Daniel Deronda

Chapter Five – The Concept of Separateness in "The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!"

Chapter Six – Moral and Multilingualism in Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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O autorze

Thomas Albrecht is an Associate Professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches nineteenth-century British and European literature, Comparative Literature, and literary theory and criticism. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (2009) and of several journal and book chapter articles on George Eliot’s ethics, as well as the editor of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman (2007).