Overview

George Eliot and Her Women argues that the Victorian writer George Eliot (1819 – 1880) was not only keenly aware of women’s issues but more deeply engaged with them than she has yet received credit for. Proposing that her work is still misread and misunderstood because of her unusual and complex relationship to gender and an inattention to the complexity of her female characters and their representation, the book examines Eliot’s construction and treatment of female characters throughout her prose fiction and her poetry to show that she was very much attuned to and supportive of women’s issues. Demonstrating that Eliot was unable to speak publicly on women’s issues because of her complicated private life, George Eliot and Her Women demonstrates that she nonetheless advocated for women’s rights, particularly access to education, through her fiction and poetry, using her creative works to inspire sympathy and promote awareness about women’s struggles in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Author:   Charlotte Fiehn
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781793646934

ISBN 10:   1793646937
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Becoming George Eliot: Gender Criticism and Authorial Identity Chapter 2 Gender and Genre in Scenes of Clerical Life Chapter 3 Mirroring Reality: Hetty’s Marginalization in Adam Bede Chapter 4 Spoilt and Spoiling Women in “The Lifted Veil” and “Brother Jacob” Chapter 5 Patriarchal Power and Sexual Desire in The Mill on the Floss Chapter 6 Missing Women and Absent Mothers: Queer Parents and Female Agency in Silas Marner Chapter 7 Formal Challenges of Gender, Race, and Class in Romola Chapter 8 Inheritance and Othering in Felix Holt Chapter 9 Tragic Destiny in The Spanish Gypsy Chapter 10 Poetry and Performance: Gender and Narrative in Eliot’s Shorter Poetry Chapter 11 Marriage and Miseducation In Middlemarch Chapter 12 Agency, Artistry, and Asexuality in Daniel Deronda

Reviews

""Charlotte Fiehn’s brilliant study brings new light to George Eliot’s relationship to the Woman Question and offers a nuanced consideration of her representation of female characters, highlighting subversive tendencies in Eliot’s works that are too often occluded."" -- Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin

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Charlotte Fiehn is instructor of writing and literature at Yeshiva University.""

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