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Memory and History in George Eliot

Transfiguring the Past

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  • © 2000

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  1. Hao Li

    1. University of Toronto, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Memory, History and George Eliot

    • Hao Li
    Pages 1-13

  3. Narrative and ‘Immovable Roots’: Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede

    • Hao Li
    Pages 15-39

  4. Sources of the Self and Moral Agency in The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner

    • Hao Li
    Pages 40-68

  5. The Moment in History: The Temporal Sense of Emotional Development in Romola

    • Hao Li
    Pages 69-96

  6. Determinism and Moral Reform in Felix Holt

    • Hao Li
    Pages 97-120

  7. The Language of Secular Religion in Middlemarch

    • Hao Li
    Pages 121-149

  8. National Consciousness in Daniel Deronda

    • Hao Li
    Pages 150-186

  9. Epilogue: Historical Consciousness and the Intellectual

    • Hao Li
    Pages 187-195

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 196-227
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About this book

This book explores the interrelations between communal memory and the sense of history in George Eliot's novels by focusing on issues such as memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, memory and time, and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories. Hao Li offers a fresh critical reading informed by major nineteenth-century theories and argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of the dialects of memory and history, an understanding that both integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time.

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'On the one hand a closely and elegantly written critique of all her novels, Hao Li's book on the other hand weaves its way suggestively and stimulatingly through many examples of Victorian thought, British and European.' - Rosemary Ashton, Professor of English, University College, London

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    Hao Li

About the author

Hao Li is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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