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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot.
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ISBN: 1594032513 9781594032516 1594035962 9786612719288 1594033870 1282719289 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York Encounter Books


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Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives
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ISBN: 0791477282 1441603646 9781441603647 0791476618 9780791476611 9780791477281 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Victorian Fetishism argues that fetishism was central to the development of cultural theory in the nineteenth century. From 1850 to 1900, when theories of social evolution reached their peak, European intellectuals identified all "primitive" cultures with "Primitive Fetishism," a psychological form of self-projection in which people believe everything in the external world—thunderstorms, trees, stones—is alive. Placing themselves at the opposite extreme of cultural evolution, the Victorians defined culture not by describing what culture was but by describing what it was not, and what it was not was fetishism. In analyses of major works by Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Edward B. Tylor, Peter Melville Logan demonstrates the paradoxical role of fetishism in Victorian cultural theory, namely, how Victorian writers projected their own assumptions about fetishism onto the realm of historical fact, thereby "fetishizing" fetishism. The book concludes by examining how fetishism became a sexual perversion as well as its place within current cultural theory.


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Darwin's plots : evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction
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ISBN: 9780521743617 9780521767699 9780511770401 9780511767890 0511767897 9780511769573 0511769571 0511770405 0521743613 0521767695 1107194512 110777912X 0511766505 0511768737 1282651447 0511765118 9786612651441 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Gillian Beer's classic Darwin's Plots, one of the most influential works of literary criticism and cultural history of the last quarter century, is here reissued in an updated edition to coincide with the anniversary of Darwin's birth and of the publication of The Origin of Species. Its focus on how writers, including George Eliot, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hardy, responded to Darwin's discoveries and to his innovations in scientific language continues to open up new approaches to Darwin's thought and to its effects in the culture of his contemporaries. This third edition includes an important new essay that investigates Darwin's concern with consciousness across all forms of organic life. It demonstrates how this fascination persisted throughout his career and affected his methods and discoveries. With an updated bibliography reflecting recent work in the field, this book will retain its place at the heart of Victorian studies.

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