George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
Genres, Gender, Feeling
Distributed for University of Wales Press
260 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2013
George Eliot and the Gothic Novel tracks George Eliot’s reading of gothic and sensational literature and her responses to them in her own works. Royce Mahawatte focuses on the frightening, startling, and melodramatic elements of Eliot’s fiction, placing Eliot within a culture of mid-Victorian sensationalism and highlighting the connections between her and authors like Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Edward Bulwer Lytton. Mahawatte argues that suspenseful and popular tropes play a significant role in Eliot’s literary ethics and creativity and that our understanding of the author’s writing needs to be broadened to include her extensive and complex engagement with the gothic tradition.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Names
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction: ‘half-womanish, half-ghostly’: George Eliot and the Inheritance of the Gothic
Notes on Names
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction: ‘half-womanish, half-ghostly’: George Eliot and the Inheritance of the Gothic
Part I: Reimagining the Genres of Feeling
1. ‘as if there was a demon in me’: ‘Janet’s Repentence’ and the Evangelical Gothic
2. ‘with two names written on it’: Sensation Narratives in Adam Bede
3 ‘of one texture with the rest of my existence’: ‘The Lifted Veil’ and the Tale of the Supernatural
Part II: Uncanny Women, Fearing Men
4. Counterfeit Gothic Heroines in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch
5. Romola and Felix Holt, The Radical: The Pursuits of Paranoid Men
6. Finale: Daniel Deronda: Sensationalized Society, Gothicized Self
Epilogue
Notes
List of Works Cited and Consulted
Index
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