...David Kurnick This essay aims to deepen our understanding of the intellectual and affective characteristics of novel reading by examining the tendency of George Eliot's heroines to drift free of the constraints of their own plots. It focuses on Eliot's historical novel Romola (1862-63) and in...

...Kevin A. Morrison This article examines representations of gestural and rhetorical modes of male suffering in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss . It argues that these novels, focusing on the transition from a traditional yeoman economy to a system of...

...Joseph Murtagh “George Eliot and the Rise of the Language of Expertise” examines the impact of professionalization on the novels of George Eliot. By vastly increasing the scope and complexity of nineteenth-century occupations, professionalization created certain challenges for novelists, not the...

...DAVID PAYNE Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Works Cited Beer , Gillian . Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction . London: Routledge, 1983 . Blumenberg , Hans . The Legitimacy of the Modern Age . Trans. Robert M...

... of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994 . Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . 1984. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992 . Carroll , David , ed. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage . 1971. London...

...Alicia Williams Abstract Whence the “dear reader”—and to where? This essay proposes that George Eliot's reformulation of nineteenth-century conventions for addressing reading audiences documents a response to the emergence of Britain's first mass reading public. Eliot inherits a propensity for...

..., and George Eliot's Middlemarch stakes its claim as a novel not only alongside, but also beyond, sensibilities and modes sociological, that other explorer of the “new social continent.” This essay shows that the novel's desire to secure its difference from sociological practices is strong enough to...

...Matthew Fellion This essay uses the concepts of the pharmakos and the pharmakeus from Derrida's “Plato's Pharmacy” to describe the relationship between George Eliot's scapegoated characters and the narrators that structure her novels' systems of value. Focusing in particular on Hans Meyrick of...

...Srdjan Smajić This essay argues that the relationship between realism and supernaturalism in realist novels is more complicated—and more symbiotic—than critics generally acknowledge. Taking Walter Scott's Waverley , George Eliot's Silas Marner , and Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre as representative...

... a shift in the focus of public sympathy from incompetent aristocratic officers to heroic working-class soldiers—thus moving Russell's reports into the realm of the realist novel, as its terms were being debated and defined in the 1850s. The essay compares Russell's journalism with George Eliot's...

... possible contingencies, novelists drew from a wider fascination with the collection of social statistical information and the promise that this offered for envisioning possible dangers and picturing contingent versions of the self. I consider several examples of George Eliot's engagement with the logic of...

... light on what makes Eliot's last novel such a particular book. © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press The Memory of the Book: The Particular Bodies of Daniel Deronda JOHN LURZ As for particular copies of books, I should have been able to take an interest in...

... , Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now , and George Eliot's Middlemarch . © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . New York: Knopf, 1984 . Dickens , Charles . Little Dorrit . 1857. London: Penguin, 2003...

... Dickens, and George Eliot and concludes with a discussion of novelistic time and the production of social relations. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Eliot , George . Romola . Ed. Sanders Andrew. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980 . Freud , Sigmund . Introductory Lectures on...

... essay sketches the “toy story” as an alternative narrative working within and against the imperatives of the bildungsroman: “grinding and beating” at its certainties; forgetting and losing its plots. When George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver finds herself in the grip of negative feelings she cannot...

...DANIEL HACK NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot’s Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168, cloth, $60.00, paper, $18.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 Neil Hertz's Pulse NEIL HERTZ, George Eliot's Pulse (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003), pp. xii + 168...

... 20 ( 1991 ): 227 –12. Anderson , Amanda . The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment . Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001 . Anger , Suzy . “George Eliot and Philosophy.” The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot . Ed. George Levine. New York: Cambridge...

...CAROLINE REITZ LEAH PRICE, The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot (New York: Cambridge UP, 2000), pp. 224, cloth, $55.00, paper, $23.99. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 The Anthologized Novel LEAH PRICE, The Antholopj...

...COURTNEY BERGER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 Works Cited Beer , Gillian . George Eliot . Brighton: Harvester P, 1986 . Clayton , Jay . “Visionary Power and Narrative Form.” ELH 46 ( 1979 ): 645 –72. Cohen , Susan R. “A History and a Metamorphosis...

...DANIEL NOVAK DAVID PAYNE, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization (New York: Palgrave 2005), pp. 224, cloth, $65.00, £45.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2005 2005 Fictions of Enchantment DAVID PAYNE, The...