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Armstrong, Heather
About the author: Heather Armstrong received her PhD in English from Drew University’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies.
2002 0-7734-7325-4This work contributes original, sometimes surprising readings of these three novels. The detailed textual examination of encounters between Eliot’s characters refresh one’s sense of the complexity and centrality of these moments. The study’s greatest contribution is in its union of the fields of philosophy and ethics with that of literature, using the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber. It also includes a reevaluation of Eliot’s use of Feuerbach, and fresh look at Eliot’s views on morality, duty, sympathy, and imagination.