George Eliot and Her Women

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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George Eliot and Her Women argues that the Victorian writer George Eliot (1819 – 1880) was not only keenly aware of women’s issues but more deeply engaged with them than she has yet received credit for. Proposing that her work is still misread and misunderstood because of her unusual and complex relationship to gender and an inattention to the complexity of her female characters and their representation, the book examines Eliot’s construction and treatment of female characters throughout her prose fiction and her poetry to show that she was very much attuned to and supportive of women’s issues. Demonstrating that Eliot was unable to speak publicly on women’s issues because of her complicated private life, George Eliot and Her Women demonstrates that she nonetheless advocated for women’s rights, particularly access to education, through her fiction and poetry, using her creative works to inspire sympathy and promote awareness about women’s struggles in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793646934

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Charlotte Fiehn is instructor of writing and literature at Yeshiva University."

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Charlotte Fiehn’s brilliant study brings new light to George Eliot’s relationship to the Woman Question and offers a nuanced consideration of her representation of female characters, highlighting subversive tendencies in Eliot’s works that are too often occluded.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1Becoming George Eliot: Gender Criticism and Authorial IdentityChapter 2Gender and Genre in Scenes of Clerical LifeChapter 3Mirroring Reality: Hetty’s Marginalization in Adam BedeChapter 4Spoilt and Spoiling Women in “The Lifted Veil” and “Brother Jacob”Chapter 5Patriarchal Power and Sexual Desire in The Mill on the FlossChapter 6Missing Women and Absent Mothers: Queer Parents and Female Agency in Silas MarnerChapter 7Formal Challenges of Gender, Race, and Class in RomolaChapter 8Inheritance and Othering in Felix HoltChapter 9Tragic Destiny in The Spanish GypsyChapter 10Poetry and Performance: Gender and Narrative in Eliot’s Shorter PoetryChapter 11Marriage and Miseducation In MiddlemarchChapter 12Agency, Artistry, and Asexuality in Daniel Deronda