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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 Modernists, Evans emerges as an author reflecting on the power of collective narratives in an age of democracy.
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



