George Eliot Review Online: Recent submissions
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Review of Riya Das’s Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature
(2025-11-19)
This cogent work, "highly recommended" by CHOICE, is yet another example of the fine new scholarship that, fortunately, often targets George Eliot's work. One might occasionally disagree with the author, but even sceptical ...
Review of Priyanka Anne Jacob’s The Victorian Novel on File, Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage
(2025-11-19)
The British Library began the nineteenth century with 48,000 volumes and ended it with two million. Add to their extraordinary mound of paper the holdings of other libraries, the Public Records Office, newspapers and ...
Review of Juliette Atkinson’s George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction
(2025-11-19)
This latest addition to the Oxford VSI series is a fresh and lively introduction to George Eliot's life and work which will appeal as much to those who are familiar with the subject as to those who are approaching the ...
Review of Juliette Atkinson and Elisha Cohn’s The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot
(2025-11-19)
This is a monumental achievement and an exceptional addition to George Eliot studies. Statistics alone are impressive. For a start the book weighs in just under two kilograms; nearly 900 pages all up. It contains fifty-two ...
Address at the Birthday Luncheon, Weston Hall Hotel, 20 November 2024
(2025-11-19)
As a teenager Mary Ann Evans was a fervently pious, Bible-believing evangelical but by the end of her life she was one of England's best known non-Christians, buried in the atheist section of Highgate Cemetery, and her ...
Lady Castletown: A Postscript
(2025-11-19)
In preparing my article on Lady Castletown in last year's issue (GER, 55, 55-65), I was at fault in overlooking the fact that Kathleen McCormack had already written about her in George Eliot in Society: Travel Abroad and ...
More Marriage Questions: George Henry Lewes and George Eliot
(2025-11-18)
Marian Evans, whom I will call George Eliot for consistency, met George Henry Lewes in 1851 at the Westminster Review, where Eliot was the managing editor and Lewes a frequent contributor. This was not love at first sight ...
George Eliot and the Piano
(2025-11-18)
The most popular instrument in the homes of the Victorians was the piano and any household that could afford it would certainly possess one. Piano music was widely available, and composers from Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, ...
‘Trailblazer’: The Life of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
(2025-11-18)
Imagine the scene. It's the early summer of 1866. We're standing in the spacious entrance hall of Aubrey House, a Georgian mansion in Holland Park, west London, belonging to Clementia Taylor and her husband Peter. The ...
‘I found her in that magnificent pose’: Ekphrastic Detail and Gendered Perspectives in Middlemarch
(2025-11-18)
In his review of George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871), Henry James praised the novel for its particularly intricate and rich attention to the knottiest of social and emotional detail. He accused Eliot's attention to these ...
The Human Intelligence of George Eliot’s Omnisicent Narration
(2025-11-18)
The importance - if any - of human authorship for literary production has been questioned since the earliest attempts to create narratives using computers or other technologies. The heightened concerns of our current moment, ...
François D’Albert Durade (2.12.1804 - 27.6.1886): An Overlooked Influence
(2025-11-18)
Francois D'Albert Durade (1804-1886) must initially seem a rather eccentric, if not outright bizarre, choice when considering those who were influential in the life of George Eliot. For, apart from the fact that he painted ...
Resurrecting the Ghost - Victorian Fictions of Revolution: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and George Eliot, Romola
(2025-11-17)
"Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa [...]" (Marx & Engels 1848, 2). This arresting statement opens The Communist Manifesto, first published in February 1848, and is usually translated as "A spectre is haunting Europe [...]" ...
'George Eliot's Onion': Perfecting Taste in George Eliot's Philosophical Poetry
(2025-11-17)
"I think, when I give a white bait dinner I will invite no one but my second self, and we will agree not to talk audibly." In his 'Comments on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola', Gerard Manley Hopkins considers ...
'A Death so Noble': The Jew as a Christian Martyr in Daniel Deronda
(2025-11-17)
In her final novel, Daniel Deronda, George Eliot attempts to provide a positive and authentic representation of Jewish identity and Jewish nationalism in Victorian England. However, her characterization of Mordecai as a ...
Review of Ilana M. Bumberg's George Eliot: Whole Soul
(2024-12-10)
Article from the George Eliot Review. Digitized and hosted by the George Eliot Review Online, editor Beverley Park Rilett.
George Eliot's Irish Acquiantance: Augusta, Lady Castletown
(2024-12-10)
Article from the George Eliot Review. Digitized and hosted by the George Eliot Review Online, editor Beverley Park Rilett.
Review of Jennifer MacLure's The Feeling of Letting Die, Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction
(2024-12-10)
Article from the George Eliot Review. Digitized and hosted by the George Eliot Review Online, editor Beverley Park Rilett.
George Eliot's Ideal Art
(2024-12-10)
George Eliot’s poetry has often been considered apart from and subordinate to her prose. Her poetical characters have been labeled too unrealistic, her verse stilted, the content muddled with abstraction: Eliot’s early ...
(Mis)Reading Characters in Middlemarch
(2024-12-10)
Article from the George Eliot Review. Digitized and hosted by the George Eliot Review Online, editor Beverley Park Rilett.