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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pinch, Adela
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil”: Prediction, Prevention, Protection

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.117-128

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Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)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

• Given the story of the intertwined writing of The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil,” it has been compelling to think of the two as fitting together like pieces of a puzzle: two pieces of unequal size, “The Lifted Veil” as the little, jagged, dark piece. In George Eliot's intellectual world, in other words, there was a perhaps unusually high interest in, and optimism about, the knowability of the future. Both “The Lifted Veil,” and The Mill on the Floss, however, derive a great deal of their pathos from the ways in which a commitment to predicting the future renders ever more acute an inability to prevent it. While The Mill on the Floss seems to cast vigilant, foreboding thinking as a form of protection and care for others, the question of who is protecting whom is always shifting.