... 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...

... that is required to provide Eliot “a placeholder for some kind of detached viewpoint on one's own life” (130–31)? How does she then move on in her strange late work Impressions of Theophrastus Such to even bolder experiments in the “spirals” and “turns” and “twists” of narrative point of view, which help her...

... these issues in broad historical, economic, and political shifts, his attempt to read Eliot’s writing from the 1850s as “proto-modernist” seems at odds with his own methodological approach. This attempt is especially curious in view of the fact that Eliot’s later work (Deronda, Impressions...