George Eliot
Articles
- Cloud-Borne Angels, Prophets and the Old Woman’s Flower-Pot: Reading George Eliot’s Realism alongside Spinoza’s ‘beings of the imagination’
'Why does Eliot set up a contrast between 'cloud-borne angels' and 'old women' going about their domestic tasks? And why would the exclusion of ordinary…
1 October 2013 - Marcus Clarke, the Two George Eliots, and the History of Two Newspapers
This essay is an experiment in a reader-focused historicism. It reconsiders the cultural-political circumstances under which Marcus Clarke rewrote George Eliot's ‘The Lifted Veil’, reframing…
31 October 2015