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Postcolonial George Eliot /
"This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot's works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot -- whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India -- and also dismis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial; Victorian Postcolonialism and the Postcolonial Imaginary; George Eliot and Victorian Subalterns; Cosmopolitan George Eliot; Decolonizing Periodization; Chapter 2 Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede); Anthropology and the Postcolonial; Victorian Anthropology and Novelistic Discourse; Scenes of Clerical Life; Henry Martyn; Adam Bede; Chapter 3 George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt 's Colonial Subject); The Journey to the East.
- George Eliot and Islam in ContextHow Many Wives Had Harold Transome?; Felix Holt's Colonial Subject; Chapter 4 Middlemarch's Colonial Imaginary; Middlemarch's Colonial Contexts; Oriental and Colonial Imagining in Middlemarch; Chapter 5 Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library; The Leavis Tradition; Educational Assessment: Examining the World; Eliot and the Postcolonial Library: Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.