Postcolonial George Eliot
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Postcolonial George Eliot

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Postcolonial George Eliot

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This bookexamines 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 dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot's impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon's Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137332110
eBook ISBN
9781137332127
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria europea

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial
  4. Chapter 2 Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede)
  5. Chapter 3 George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt ’s Colonial Subject)
  6. Chapter 4 Middlemarch’s Colonial Imaginary
  7. Chapter 5 Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library
  8. Works Cited
  9. Index