Antipodean George Eliot

Antipodean George Eliot explores George Eliot's life and work from de-centered vantage points, challenging orthodoxies and revealing new contexts for appreciating her significance in nineteenth-century letters.

Format: Hardback
Length: 220 pages
Publication date: 21 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In her renowned novel "Middlemarch," George Eliot cautions readers against perceiving themselves as the focal point of their own universe, creating a deceptive sense of concentric order. However, the esteemed scholars assembled in "Antipodean George Eliot" challenge this notion of centrism. Drawing from diverse backgrounds spanning four continents and six countries, they approach Eliot from various de-centered perspectives, shedding light on the enigmatic and overlooked aspects of her life and work. Spanning the entirety of Eliot's career, from her early journalism to her major novels and unconventional late works like "Impressions of Theophrastus Such," "Antipodean George Eliot" strives to challenge prevailing notions about Eliot's literary development, upend established interpretations of her moral and political ideas, and provide fresh frameworks for appreciating her unparalleled significance in the nineteenth-century letters.

In her renowned novel "Middlemarch," George Eliot cautions readers against perceiving themselves as the focal point of their own universe, creating a deceptive sense of concentric order. However, the esteemed scholars assembled in "Antipodean George Eliot" challenge this notion of centrism. Drawing from diverse backgrounds spanning four continents and six countries, they approach Eliot from various de-centered perspectives, shedding light on the enigmatic and overlooked aspects of her life and work. Spanning the entirety of Eliot's career, from her early journalism to her major novels and unconventional late works like "Impressions of Theophrastus Such," "Antipodean George Eliot" strives to challenge prevailing notions about Eliot's literary development, upend established interpretations of her moral and political ideas, and provide fresh frameworks for appreciating her unparalleled significance in the nineteenth-century letters.

Weight: 590g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032267142