Postcolonial George Eliot [electronic resource] / by Oliver Lovesey.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781137332127
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/5415
Yazar
Lovesey, Oliver.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2017.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VII, 310 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial -- 2. Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede) -- 3. George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt's Colonial Subject -- 4. Middlemarch's Colonial Imaginary -- 5. Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library -- Works Cited.
Özet, vb.
This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.
Konu
European literature.
Literature, Modern __ 19th century.
Literature.
European Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
World Literature.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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