George Eliot and her women /
"George Eliot and Her Women explores George Eliot's engagement with gender, her representation of female characters, and her attitudes towards women's issues during her lifetime. Examining the construction of her female characters throughout her prose fiction and poetry, it argues tha...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : problematizing George Eliot and the woman question
- Becoming George Eliot : gender criticism and authorial identity
- Gender and genre in scenes of clerical life
- Mirroring reality : Hetty's marginalization in Adam Bede
- Spoilt and spoiling women in "The lifted veil" and "Brother Jacob"
- Patriarchal power and sexual desire in The mill on the floss
- Missing women and absent mothers : queer parents and female agency in Silas Marner
- Formal challenges of gender, race, and class in Romola
- Inheritance and othering in Felix Holt
- Tragic destiny in the Spanish Gypsy
- Poetry and performance : gender and narrative in Eliot's shorter poetry
- Marriage and miseducation in Middlemarch
- Agency, artistry, and asexuality in Daniel Deronda.