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  • 1 - Introduction: George Eliot and the Art of Realism
  • Edited by George Levine, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Nancy Henry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
  • Published online: 25 January 2019
  • Print publication: 31 January 2019, pp 1-18
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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
  • The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
  • 2nd edition
  • Edited by George Levine, Nancy Henry
  • Published online: 25 January 2019
  • Print publication: 31 January 2019
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    This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into the work of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, author most famously of Middlemarch, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Daniel Deronda. From an introduction that traces her originality as a realist novelist, the book moves on to extensive considerations of each of Eliot's novels, her life and her publishing history. Chapters address the problems of money, philosophy, religion, politics, gender and science, as they are developed in her novels. With its supplementary materials, including a chronology and an extensive section of suggested readings, this Companion is an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.
  • 2008 AND ALL THAT: ECONOMICS AND VICTORIAN LITERATURE
  • Nancy Henry
  • Journal: Victorian Literature and Culture / Volume 43 / Issue 1 / March 2015
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2015, pp. 217-222
  • Print publication: March 2015
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    In their collection of essays, The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (1999), Mark Osteen and Martha Woodmansee identified and named a movement in economic literary studies and sought to place it alongside a cultural turn in economics. In their introduction, they offer possible reasons for the proliferation of scholarship in literature, culture, and economics. One is that “the critical pendulum has decidedly swung back toward historicist methods” and away from formalist approaches (3); another is that the 1980s thrust “interest rates, stock market speculation, takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and so on, into the public attention as never before since the 1930s” (4). Today, the proverbial pendulum has swung back toward formalism, and it is now surprising to encounter their comparison of the 1980s to the 1930s because we have become so accustomed to claim that comparison to the 1930s for our own post-2008 economy.

  • THE ROMOLA CODE: “MEN OF APPETITES” IN GEORGE ELIOT'S HISTORICAL NOVEL
  • Nancy Henry
  • Journal: Victorian Literature and Culture / Volume 39 / Issue 2 / September 2011
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2011, pp. 327-348
  • Print publication: September 2011
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    The fifteenth-century Florentine world that George Eliot studied and recreated in Romola (Cornhill Magazine, July 1862–August 1863) was characterized by the idea of love between males and the practice of sex between males. Same sex desire took various forms from the love of the older teacher for his pupil to the illegal but common practice of penetrating adolescent boys, for which many fifteenth-century Florentine men were prosecuted, particularly under the regime of the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola (1494–98). The monasteries themselves constituted an intense, all-male community of voluntary celibacy. These various sexual behaviors co-existed with more visible heterosexual institutions and practices, from the often politicized arranged marriages of the wealthy elite to the casual coupling of the peasant classes.

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