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Subject Area: George Eliot
Armstrong, Heather2002 0-7734-7325-4 212 pages
This 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.
Baker, William
1975 0-7734-0312-4 274 pages
In this, her last published novel, Eliot used Jewish concerns thematically, symbolically, and character-wise. With few exceptions, there has been little serious analysis of Eliot's knowledge of Judaism and the use to which she put it in her creative work. This study made use of her letters and notebooks to investigate these questions.
Atkins, Dorothy
1978 0-7734-0250-0 188 pages
Explores in detail the influence of Spinoza's ethical doctrine and the extent to which Eliot incorporated certain aspects of this philosophy into her novels. Eliot translated Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Ethica.
McKay, Brenda
2003 0-7734-6621-5 636 pages
This interdisciplinary approach to Eliot’s writings places her within the wider context of debates on racial and cultural differences, furnishing an altered context for scholars to return to her fiction and poetry. It brings together a discussion of her fiction with an account of the activities of Victorian members of groups such as the Anthropological Society, scrutinizing Eliot’s dislike of colonialism and her responses to the Indian Mutiny and the Jamaica rebellion. It also examines Victorian attitudes to Gypsies, Black slaves, Indians, Jews and Turks. The novels are discussed within the context of contemporary theories about race, with reference to Robert Knox, Darwin, Huxley, and the work of social philosophers Comte and Herbert Spencer. It also discusses a range of other writers in relation to Eliot, including J. G. Herder, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the ethnologists J. C. Prichard and Gobineau, and Jewish writers Halevi, Maimonides, and Luria.
Gately, Patricia
1997 0-7734-8541-4 292 pages
LeFew-Blake, Penelope
2001 0-7734-7437-4 152 pages
Eliot, Schreiner, Woolf, and Lessing are among the women writers of the British tradition whose work reveals a debt to Schopenhauer’s theory of the will and his aesthetic concepts.
Baker, William
1985 0-7734-0318-3 376 pages
George Eliot's spelling, punctuation, and accents have been retained. Word-division and hyphenation have been kept, as well as underlining. marginal markings, with other markings and crossed-out by legible material are included in the list of `Omitted Textual Details' following the text.
Baker, William
0 0-7734-0314-0 337 pages
George Eliot's spelling, punctuation, and accents have been retained. Word-division and hyphenation have been kept, as well as underlining. marginal markings, with other markings and crossed-out by legible material are included in the list of `Omitted Textual Details' following the text.
Baker, William
0 0-7734-0320-5 186 pages
George Eliot's spelling, punctuation, and accents have been retained. Word-division and hyphenation have been kept, as well as underlining. marginal markings, with other markings and crossed-out by legible material are included in the list of `Omitted Textual Details' following the text.