Antipodean George Eliot

Antipodean George Eliot explores 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: Paperback / softback
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, uncovering how the enigmatic and marginalized aspects of her life and work reveal unexpected insights into the central and familiar. This comprehensive collection of essays, spanning Eliot's entire career, from her early journalism to her major novels and peculiar late works like Impressions of Theophrastus Such, aims to disrupt conventional narratives about Eliot's literary development, challenge prevailing notions about her moral and political beliefs, and provide fresh contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032424514