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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lesjak, Carolyn
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

George Eliot and Politics

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.338-352

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• George Eliot, like Dickens and Lukács, shares a commitment to the belief that everything truly is politics, which necessitates experimentation with form and character to find means to demonstrate the deep relatedness of all aspects of social life. For Eliot this belief finds expression in her commitment to the common(s) and the commonplace, a commitment grounded in a materialist view of character that both draws on older eighteenth‐century practices of character‐building and refashions them in response to the pressures of a globalizing mid‐nineteenth‐century world and the new kinds of social bonds it brings into being. By foregrounding the materiality of Eliot's realism and by extension her politics, the author hopes to counter the de rigueur association of her writing with a predictable liberalism and suggest some of the ways in which she may be more relevant to twenty‐first century readers than she has appeared to be.