The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner

ISBN-13: 9780333728055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 233 str.

Nahem Yousaf

Opis

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.

Spis treści

General Editors' Preface.- Introduction.- The Mill on the Floss, the Critics and the Bildungsroman; S. Fraiman.- The Two Rhetorics: George Eliot's Bestiary; J. Hillis Miller.- The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss; J. A. Garcia Landa.- Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss; M. Jacobus.- Nationhood, Adulthood and the Ruptures of Bildung: Arresting Development in The Mill on the Floss; J. D. Esty.- Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss; P. R. F. Johnstone.- 'Light enough to trusten by': Structure and Experience in Silas Marner; T. Dawson.- The Miser's Two Bodies: Silas Marner and the Sexual Possibilities of the Commodity; J. Nunokawa.- 'A report of unknown objects': Silas Marner; J. Reilly.- Silas Marner: A Divided Eden; S. Shuttleworth.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

NAHEM YOUSAF lectures in English Literature at the Nottingham Trent University.

ANDREW MAUNDER lectures in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire.

Blurb

This creative selection of essays explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. Widely revered in her own day as an iconic sage, a sibyl, and moral teacher, Eliot has been subject to radical revaluation and re-reading. Of the major Victorian wimen writers she has benifited most from the variety of methodological approaches that have invigorated the study of literature over the past twenty years. This is borne out in the wide range of critical responses represented in this collection. Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic. Complete with an informed introduction exploring both Eliot's fluctuating critical fortunes and the contours of current scholarship, this collection is an important resource for students and teachers of George Eliot's fiction.