 | Antipodean George Eliot Subjects: Humanities; Language & Literature; Philosophy; Media & Film Studies; Literature; 19th Century Philosophy; Journalism & Professional Media; Literature by Geographic Area; Literature by Period; In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a 'flattering illusion of concentric arrangement'. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot's life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot's career--from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such--Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot's development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters. Margaret Harris is Challis Professor of English Literature Emerita, The University of Sydney. She edited The Journals of George Eliot (with Judith Johnston, 1998) and George Eliot in Context (2013). Her other publications include studies of Victorian fiction, especially that of George Meredith. Matthew Sussman is Senior Lecturer in English at The University of Sydney. He is the author of Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel (2021), as well as articles on Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Matthew Arnold. |
