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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McDonagh, Josephine
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

Imagining Locality and Affiliation: George Eliot's Villages

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.353-369

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Wiley Online Library All Obooks

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Even in the early works, George Eliot's sense of place is produced from a distance, and in complex relations to past and future maps. This chapter discusses how did Eliot imagine locality and affiliation. Often in the form of a village. Villages abound in her fiction, but their role is never simple. They are both residual social forms, and organisms through which to imagine the future; and they range across the globe, from her native Warwickshire to faraway India. The chapter follows the idea of the village as it operates within her works, as, variously: the location of recollections of her childhood, and a symbol for national life; the basis of a form of representation embedded in her own practices of realism; and a model for both a cosmopolitan modernity, and a primitive past.