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George Eliot and Her Women
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Becoming George Eliot: Gender Criticism and Authorial Identity
- Chapter 2: Gender and Genre in Scenes of Clerical Life
- Chapter 3: Mirroring Reality
- Chapter 4: Spoilt and Spoiling Women in “The Lifted Veil” and “Brother Jacob”
- Chapter 5: Patriarchal Power and Sexual Desire in The Mill on the Floss
- Chapter 6: Missing Women and Absent Mothers: Queer Parents and Female Agency in Silas Marner
- Chapter 7: Formal Challenges of Gender, Race, and Class in Romola
- Chapter 8: Inheritance and Othering in Felix Holt
- Chapter 9: Tragic Destiny in The Spanish Gypsy
- Chapter 10: Poetry and Performance: Gender and Narrative in Eliot’s Shorter Poetry
- Chapter 11: Marriage and Miseducation In Middlemarch
- Chapter 12: Agency, Artistry, and Asexuality in Daniel Deronda
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
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