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George Eliot is a myth rather than a pseudonym. The writer Marian Evans invented the Victorian novelist as a character with a personality, a political view and a style that was received enthusiastically by the expanding mid-century readership, and just as enthusiastically rejected by the new generation of writers who considered her the last Victorian novelist. ""The Myth of George Eliot"" proposes that the narrative style and structure of Evans’s fiction is the result of her studies, her reflection on the role of literature in the political and ethical life of a nation, and on the novel as the site of a cooperation between writer and reader in the continuous work on inherited traditions. Neither the last Victorian nor the first Modernist, Evans emerges as an author reflecting on the power of collective narratives in an age of democracy.

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Author:   Alessandra Grego
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032551128

ISBN 10:   1032551127
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   03 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Monstrous Author Disembodied Marian Evans or George Eliot The Myth of George Eliot Part I: Myth and Common Sense Chapter 1: Writing & Translating 1.1. The Political Essence of Higher Criticism 1.2. David Friedrich Strauss: New Boundaries 1.3. Ludwig Feuerbach: Spiritual Marriages 1.4. Benedict de Spinoza: Ethics as Practice 1.5. Vico: Myth in History 1.6. The Futility of Embalming Dead Bodies Chapter 2: Vanishing 2.1. George Eliot: A Monster by Any Other Name 2.2. Truth in Excess 2.3. Living in Other People’s Opinions or The Manx Cat Chapter 3: Surfacing 3.1. The Eminent Narrator 3.2. The Writer as Nobody 3.3. How to Slay a Myth Part II: Demythologising/Remythologising Chapter 4. Knights 4.1. The Common Sense of Social Compromise 4.2. The Violence of Common sense 4.3. The Champion of Common Sense 4.4. The Masque of Common Sense Chapter 5. Damsels 5.1. Cloven Maiden 5.2. Artificial Songbird 5.3. Princess in Exile Chapter 6. Ordinary Sinners Chapter 7. Parrhesia 7.1. River 7.2. Brook Conclusion: Truckling to the Smile of the World Bibliography Index

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Alessandra Grego is Associate Professor of English Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She has published ""The Spectacle of Monstrosity in the Ballad of the Sad Cafè."" Carson McCullers Centenary Collection, ed. by Carlos Dews and Sue B. Walker. 2022. ""George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas,"" in Myths of Europe, ed. by Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 123– 132. ""The Dual Form of Daniel Deronda,"" Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, vol. 10 (2000): 93–113. With Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, translation of Orlando, Francesco. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, Yale University Press, 2006.

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