...John Lurz This essay reorients discussions of Daniel Deronda from its rather tortured generic classifications to a more focused awareness of the novel's particular material medium of transmission in the book. It contrasts the investment in generic forms evinced by Gwendolen and Daniel in the first...

... of Daniel Deronda and Theophrastus of Impressions of Theophrastus Such , this essay argues that Eliot's apparent scapegoats are not designed to affirm the moral vision of Eliot's narrators through negative exemplarity: rather, pharmakos and pharmakeus together generate a complex narrative rhetoric...

... of statistical analysis in Scenes of Clerical Life, Middlemarch , and Daniel Deronda. In the second half of this essay, I offer a rereading of Dickens's Great Expectations and argue that the International Statistical Congress of 1860, the Census of 1861, and the surrounding debates regarding the value...

.... Analyzing the plot's architecture, the article reveals how James strategically alludes to two novels about racism—overtly to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and covertly to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin —to construct his highly influential narrative about a white woman's transatlantic journey...

..., and British Fiction 1810–1870 . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001 . Eliot , George . Adam Bede . 1859. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 . Eliot , George . Daniel Deronda . 1876. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995 . Eliot , George . The Lifted Veil . 1859. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995...

... compares Daniel Deronda to Francis Galton’s composite photographs of “model Jews” to show that the novelist’s strategy of making Deronda conform to a disembodied ideal Jewish type was not a representational failure but a radical way of achieving a greater realism than particularized description...

... not to be the agent of his end. In her subtle decoding of Gwendolen’s half-­recognized, barely articulated wishes, Ryan shows the complex and contradictory workings of her “unconscious cerebration.” Perhaps the most original aspect of Ryan’s discussion of Daniel Deronda is her response to the perennially...

.... © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 Works Cited Armstrong , Nancy . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Du Maurier , George . Trilby . 1894. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999 . Eliot , George . Daniel Deronda . 1876. New York...

... of a certain kind of self-abstraction necessary for certain kinds of sell- ing of the self. In the somaeconomics of Daniel Deronda, Eliot addresses the decay of desire, a problem worked on in the 1870s by the economist William Stanley Jevons in marginal utility theory. The three main characters...

..., and through all the deeply weird central characters in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda , with many other fictional figures making apt cameo appearances. Clarissa Harlowe sits like a spider at the center of Lee's new account of novel history, her unbending impassivity—which scrambles the difference between...

... (1854) and Mary Barton (1848) alongside pastoral or domestic novels such as The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Daniel Deronda (1876), Ketabgian exposes their shared dependence on the language of the factory and shows just how extensively the language of machines perme- ated Victorian letters...

.... George E. Catlin New York: Free P, 1938 . 1 –13. Eliot , George . Daniel Deronda . 1876. Ed. Terence Cave. New York: Penguin, 1995 . Felski , Rita . “Nothing to Declare: Identity, Shame and the Lower Middle Class.” PMLA 115 ( 2000 ): 33 –45. Fluet , Lisa . “The Self...

...” to the sympathetic expectations of a reader who imagines the absent and suffering Hetty. Chapter 6 follows a similar structure by holding up two characters from Daniel Deronda as representative of Eliot’s temporal dialectics. Like Adam Bede, Daniel trades living in the 472 NOVEL | FALL 2013...

... might be said to orbit between them. In Daniel Deronda (1876), for instance, Eliot writes about the envy that Grandcourt supposes Deronda must feel for him: “An imaginary envy, the idea that others feel their comparative deficiency, is the ordinary cortège of 302 novel | summer 2009...

... . Eliot , George . Adam Bede . 1859. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 . ———. Daniel Deronda . 1876. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995 . ———. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life . 1871-72. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994 . ———. The Mill on the Floss . 1860. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979...

... mobilize, there emerges the possibility of an extradiegetic world in which, say, Daniel Deronda and Grandcourt, having performed their intensively differentiated, thematically hypersaturated roles on stage, might unwind over drinks and dinner after the show. As Kurnick teases it out...

..., which “tend to privilege finality, and focus on the perfect form revealed at the end” (59), the presentation of figures such as Daniel Deronda or Konstantin Levin at the end of Eliot's eponymous novel and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina shows how an epiphanic model of narrative need not imply, let alone...

... – 30 . Eliot George . Daniel Deronda . 1876 . Ed. Handley Graham . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1988 . Eliot George . Felix Holt, the Radical . 1866 . Ed. William Baker and Womack Kenneth . Peterborough : Broadview Literary Texts , 2000 . Eliot George...

... . Daniel Deronda . 1876 . Ed. Handley Graham . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2009 . Fessenbecker Patrick . “ Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Ethical Confusion .” Victorian Studies 56 . 4 ( 2014 ): 649 – 74 . Goodlad Lauren . The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic...

... physiology and psychology throughout the study, examining the subjective character of vision (for example, in Eliot's Daniel Deronda), and most memorably in a chapter on hallucination and science fiction. Usefully addressing an issue and a body of work usually neglected in studies of Victo- rian...