Marian Evans In The Twenty First Century

Author : Laetitia Weaver,George Eliot
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326552107

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Marian Evans in the Twenty First Century by Laetitia Weaver,George Eliot Pdf

30th December 1852: After an unhappy Christmas, Marian Evans returns to London. Today will mark the first day of a bitter feud between Marian and her brother, Isaac. Indeed, the rift between them will become so great that Marian becomes trapped into an endless repeating-cycle in which she keeps returning to this moment, as many "alternate" futures are played out. In an "alternate" time-line, Marian Evans resigns her job as Editor of the Westminster Review in 1851. This version of history will remember Marian as a translator, journalist and philosopher - but not as novelist. She will disappear into obscurity following the publication of the second novel by Warwickshire writer, Joseph Liggins. Marian next finds herself on a railway platform at Nuneaton Station, some time in the early twenty first century of this "alternate" world. Here she befriends a young man whom claims he will have a major influence upon the direction of her life in the years to come.

Author : Karen Chase
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190290948

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Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century by Karen Chase Pdf

Middlemarch is the prime example of George Eliot's dictum that "interpretations are illimitable," and in this collection of new essays Middlemarch is re-examined as an open text responsive to gaps and fissures, and as resistant to authority as it is to other fixed notions of identity, idealism, and gender. What does the novel omit, and how do the omissions shape what is there? How shall we understand the materiality of the text? What problems does it pose to adaptation? The novel's plasticity becomes a basis for investigation into the multiple forms of expressiveness, and a consideration of how we might plot the patterns linguistically, ideologically, even cinematically. New spaces emerge within character, place, and narrative; what seemed absent or inaccessible assumes shape and definition; Middlemarch remains "Victorian" but it is a Victorianism understood through the dual perspectives of the 19th and 21st centuries. Scholars of George Eliot and students of Victorianism will be engaged by the wide-ranging scope of these essays, which nonetheless build on each other to form a coherent narrative of critical reflections. If there is something for everyone in Middlemarch, there is also something compelling about each of the essays in this collection.

Author : Stuart Mathieson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000296174

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Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science by Stuart Mathieson Pdf

This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute. Founded in London in 1865, and largely drawn from the evangelical wing of the Church of England, it had as its prime objective the defence of ‘the great truths revealed in Holy Scripture’ from ‘the opposition of science, falsely so called’. The conflict for them was not between science and religion directly, but what exactly constituted true science. Chapters cover the Victoria Institute’s formation, its heyday in the late nineteenth century, and its decline in the years following the First World War. They show that at stake was more than any particular theory; rather, it was an entire worldview, combining theology, epistemology, and philosophy of science. Therefore, instead of simply offering a survey of religious responses to evolutionary theory, this study demonstrates the complex relationship between science, evangelical religion, and society in the years after Darwin’s Origin of Species. It also offers some insight as to why conservative evangelicals did not display the militancy of some American fundamentalists with whom they shared so many of their intellectual commitments. Filling in a significant gap in the literature around modern attitudes to religion and science, this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, the History of Religion, and Science and Religion.

Author : K. M. Newton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319919263

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George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century by K. M. Newton Pdf

George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of Eliot. Tracing Eliot’s literary reception from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, K. M. Newton frames Eliot as an unorthodox radical and considers the philosophical, ethical, political, and artistic subtleties permeating her writings. Drawing from close readings of her novels, essays, and letters, Newton offers a new critical perspective on George Eliot and reveals her enduring relevance in the twenty-first century.

Author : Fionnuala Dillane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107434660

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Before George Eliot by Fionnuala Dillane Pdf

Fionnuala Dillane revisits the first decade of Marian Evans's working life to explore the influence of the periodical press on her emergence as George Eliot and on her subsequent responses to fame. This interdisciplinary study discusses the significance of Evans's work as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer in the periodical press from the late 1840s to the late 1850s and positions this early career against critical responses to Evans's later literary persona, George Eliot. Dillane argues that Evans's association with the nineteenth-century periodical industry, that dominant cultural force of the age, is important for its illumination of Evans's understanding of the formation of reading audiences, the development of literary genres and the cultivation of literary celebrity.

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332127

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Postcolonial George Eliot by Oliver Lovesey Pdf

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

Author : Jason K. Allen
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433644405

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The SBC and the 21st Century by Jason K. Allen Pdf

The Southern Baptist Convention is currently facing issues that challenge its identity, heritage, and future. In The SBC and the 21st Century, key leaders—including Jason Allen, Frank Page, Ronnie Floyd, Thom Rainer, Albert Mohler, Paige Patterson, David Platt, and Danny Akin—address critical issues such as: · Will the SBC grow more unified around shared convictions and mission or will it fragment over secondary concerns and tertiary doctrinal differences? · Will the SBC be able to maintain a distinct Baptist identity while engaging and partnering with the broader evangelical community? · Will the SBC be willing to reimagine its structures, programs, and efforts to effectively reach the world for Christ or will it risk being a past-tense denomination? This volume not only promotes meaningful dialogue, it calls leaders throughout the SBC into action. Extensive thought, research, assessment, and wisdom from some of the SBC’s brightest minds have been poured into this volume with the intent of rendering a helpful contribution to SBC life that will propel forward the collective work of Southern Baptists well into the 21st century.

Author : Jan Jedrzejewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134632565

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George Eliot by Jan Jedrzejewski Pdf

This comprehensive guide to one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period introduces the contexts and many interpretations of her work, from publication to the present. & nbsp.

Author : Simon R Frost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322306

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The Business of the Novel by Simon R Frost Pdf

This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarch’s composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book.

Author : Simon Dentith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317087342

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Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now by Simon Dentith Pdf

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in nineteenth-century literature. Suggesting that the characteristic aesthetic attitude encouraged by the backward look is one of irony rather than remorse or regret, he examines works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin in terms of their participation in significant histories that extend to this day. Liberalism, class, gender, political representation and notions of progress, utopianism and ecological concern as currently understood can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Just as today’s critics strive to respect the authenticity of nineteenth-century writers and readers who responded to these ideas within their historical world, so, too, do those nineteenth-century imaginings persist to challenge the assumptions of the present. It is therefore possible, Dentith argues, to conceive of the act of reading historical literature with an awareness of the historical context and of the difference between the past and the present while allowing that friction or difference to be part of how we think about a text and how it communicates. His book summons us to consider how words travel to the reality of the reader’s own time and how engagement with nineteenth-century writers’ anticipation of the judgements of future generations reveal hindsight’s capacity to transform our understanding of the past in the light of subsequent knowledge.

Author : Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature Stefan Collini,Stefan Collini
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199291052

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Absent Minds by Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature Stefan Collini,Stefan Collini Pdf

The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator Stefan Collini challenges the myth that there are no "real" intellectuals in Britain and offers a persuasive analysis of 'the intellectual' as a concept as well as detailed discussions of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said.

Author : Maggs Bros
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B233525

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English Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries by Maggs Bros Pdf

Author : Karen Chase
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195169959

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Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century by Karen Chase Pdf

Presents a collection of essays that address the questions which "Middlemarch" poses.

Author : Terence Cave
Publisher : OUP UK
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199604807

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Mignon's Afterlives by Terence Cave Pdf

Terence Cave traces the afterlives of Mignon, an apparently minor character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, through the European cultures of the 19th and 20th centuries. The enigmatic and fascinating Mignon reappears in wide range of different works, mainly narrative fiction but also poetry, song, opera, and film.

Author : Thomas Nolden
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800083691

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In the Face of Adversity by Thomas Nolden Pdf

In the Face of Adversity explores the dynamics of translating texts that articulate particular notions of adverse circumstances. The chapters illustrate how literary records of often painful experiences and dissenting voices are at risk of being stripped of their authenticity when not carefully handled by the translator; how cultural moments in which the translation of a text that would have otherwise fallen into oblivion instead gave rise to a translator who enabled its preservation while ultimately coming into their own as an author as a result; and how the difficulties the translator faces in intercultural or transnational constellations in which prejudice plays a role endangers projects meant to facilitate mutual understanding. The authors address translation as a project of making available and preserving a corpus of texts that would otherwise be in danger of becoming censored, misperceived or ignored. They look at translation and adaptation as a project of curating textual models of personal, communal or collective perseverance, and they offer insights into the dynamics of cultural inclusion and exclusion through a series of theoretical frameworks, as well as through a set of concrete case studies drawn from different cultural and historical contexts. The collection also explores some of the venues that artists have pursued by transferring artistic expressions from one medium into another in order to preserve and disseminate important experiences in different cultural settings, media and arts.