In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed. He also explores the variety of ways in which 'George Eliot' has been recontextualized for modern readers, tourists, cinema-goers, and television viewers. The book includes a chronology of Eliot's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.
Author(s): Tim Dolin
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 302
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 9
A Chronology of George Eliot......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 20
1. The Insurgent and the Sibyl: The Life of George Eliot......Page 22
England in 1819 and After......Page 62
The Age of Reform......Page 70
Social Class and Social Life......Page 78
Religion and Society......Page 88
The Woman Question......Page 91
Literature and the Arts in an Unpoetical Age......Page 95
Eliot and the Victorian Novel......Page 112
Society, Politics, and the Social Novel......Page 130
Money......Page 151
5. Eliot and the Woman Question......Page 158
6. Eliot and Religion......Page 186
7. Eliot and Victorian Science......Page 211
Eliot after 1900......Page 237
Eliot on Film and Television......Page 250
Notes......Page 271
Further Reading......Page 287
Websites......Page 292
Film and Television Adaptations......Page 293
B......Page 295
D......Page 296
E......Page 297
F......Page 298
I......Page 299
M......Page 300
N......Page 301
R......Page 302
S......Page 303
W......Page 304
Z......Page 305
