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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Green, Laura
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

George Eliot: Gender and Sexuality

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.385-399

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• George Eliot wrote in the inescapable context of the Victorian Woman Question of the second half of the nineteenth century; the most recent, focused renewal of interest in her work occurred in the context of the second‐wave feminism of the last decades of the twentieth century. For much feminist scholarship on George Eliot in the twentieth century, the focus was not on gender broadly conceived but on her representation of women, and its relationship to her own experience, and it is with this focus that this essay begins. A variety of critical turns and developments of the last decades, however‐toward integration of formal with cultural or historical concerns; toward broader conceptions of gender studies and queer theory‐have brought into view a more expansive set of questions about how Eliot's work grapples with questions of gender and sexuality, toward which this essay moves.