George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical
questioning, but most of her critics relate her substantially to a
Victorian context and intellectual framework. This book seeks to
demonstrate that more thany any of her Victorian contemporaries she
anticipates significant aspects of writing in the twentieth and
indeed twenty-first century in regard to both art and philosophy.
Although rightly associated with "realism" her concept of the real
is philosophically informed and her writing is also highly
allusive.
This new book presents a series of linked essays exploring
Eliot's credentials as a radical thinker and her engagement with
political and ethical issues. Opening with her relationship to the
Romantic tradition and Byron in particular, he goes on to discuss
her reading of Darwinism, her radical critique of Victorian values
and her affiliation with modernists such as Joyce. The final essays
discuss her work in relation to Derridean themes and to the
philosopher Bernard Williams' concept of moral luck. What emerges
is a very different Eliot from the rather conservative figure
portrayed in much of the critical literature, who might justly be
thought of as the most significant Victorian writer for
twenty-first century readers and critics.
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