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DANIEL DERONDA, PROFESSOR OF SPINOZA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2016

James Arnett
James Arnett*
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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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For almost a decade, George Eliot labored at a translation of seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Ethics, and although completed, it never saw the light of day; it was the subject of a petty fight between the proposed publisher, Henry Bohn, and her partner, George Henry Lewes. The result was that for more than a century it was tucked away, first, presumably, in a drawer, and eventually, in the Beinecke Library at Yale University. Although critics and scholars have long known that she had completed this work – references abound in letters and journal entries – it wasn't published until 1981, and even then, in an obscure imprint of the Salzburg University press. Copies of this published edition, which is limited to the Ethics and capably annotated by Thomas Deegan, are quite rare and difficult to get ahold of.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 833 - 854
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