George Eliot Interdisciplinary Essays
This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new
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jean arnold and lila marz harper
George Eliot
Jean Arnold · Lila Marz Harper Editors
George Eliot Interdisciplinary Essays
A Bicentennial Collection
Editors Jean Arnold California State University, San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA, USA
Lila Marz Harper Central Washington University Ellensburg, WA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-10625-6 ISBN 978-3-030-10626-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10626-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966682 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: George Eliot’s early home, Griff House ©: Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction 1 Jean Arnold, Lila Marz Harper and Thomas Pinney Part I Periodical Studies and History of the Book 2
“A Thousand Tit-Bits”: George Eliot and the New Journalism 19 Alexis Easley
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George Eliot’s Literary Legacy: Poetic Perception and Self-Fashioning in the 1870s 41 Wendy S. Williams
Part II Eliot’s Research Methodology 4
George Eliot as “Worthy Scholar”: Note Taking and the Composition of Romola 63 Andrew Thompson
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Egyptian Mythology in Eliot’s Major Works 97 Molly Youngkin
Part III Eliot and Victorian Science 6
Organic Realism in Middlemarch 119 Jean Arnold
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“These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) 139 Lila Marz Harper
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Handling George Eliot’s Fiction 165 Peter J. Capuano
Part IV Animals and Environmental Studies 9
“It Was All over with Wildfire”: Horse Accidents in George Eliot’s Fiction 197 Nancy Henry
10 The Functions of Dogs in George Eliot’s Fiction 213 Sara Håkansson 11 The Ambivalence of W
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