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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (Hardcover)
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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (Hardcover)
Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
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The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs
devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a
profoundly significant, influential figure not only in
nineteenth-century English and European literature,
nineteenth-century women's writing, the history of the novel, and
Victorian intellectual culture, but also in the field of literary
ethics. Ethics are a predominant theme in Eliot's fictional and
non-fictional writings. Her ethical insights and ideas are a
defining element of her greatness as an artist and novelist.
Through meticulous close readings of Eliot's fiction, essays, and
letters, The Ethical Vision of George Eliot presents an original,
complex definition of her ethical vision as she developed it over
the course of her career. It examines major novels like Adam Bede,
Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda; many of Eliot's most significant
essays; and devotes two entire chapters to Eliot's final book
Impressions of Theophrastus Such, an idiosyncratic collection of
character sketches that Eliot scholars have heretofore generally
overlooked or ignored. The Ethical Vision of George Eliot
demonstrates that Eliot defined her ethical vision alternately in
terms of revealing and strengthening a fundamental human communion
that links us to other persons, however different and remote from
ourselves; and in terms of recognizing and respecting the otherness
of other persons, and of the universe more generally, from
ourselves. Over the course of her career, Eliot increasingly
transitions from the former towards the latter imperative, but she
also considerably complicates her conception of otherness, and of
what it means to be ethically responsible to it.
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