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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Plotz, John
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

Two Flowers: George Eliot's Diagrams and the Modern Novel

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.76-90

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter argues that George Eliot's fictional experiments suggest the need to revisit Lukács's account of the gulf that yawns between socially anchored realism and its subjectivist successors. One can best locate Eliot by extrapolating the “culture of diagram” into a later nineteenth‐century context in which a character's own awareness of what it means to live within a culture of diagram is one of the basic pieces of information that a diagram ought to contain. Examining the work of free indirect discourse in Eliot's novels (Middlemarch especially) and the principles of characterization that shape her final book, the generically odd Impressions of Theophrastus Such, the author argues that Eliot's understanding of the multi‐perspectivalism of prose fiction does build upon the “culture of diagram”. It does so, however, in large part by forcing a reconsideration of the various axes along which novelistic discourse might seem to offer a privileged vantage.