This issue of 19 uses the occasion of George Eliot’s bicentenary in 2019 to think again about an extraordinary Victorian’s life and work. The articles included here revisit and rethink the writing life, from the woman of letters at the Westminster Review through to the peculiar pen of Theophrastus Such. We celebrate a novelist intensely alive to her world, engaged with multiple forms of art, with science and philosophy, politics and life, hope and human suffering.
Editors: Carolyn Burdett (Guest Editor)
Introduction
The Life/The Woman of Letters
George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and the House of Blackwood 1856–60
- Joanne Shattock
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George Eliot and Print Media: Woman of Letters
- Laurel Brake
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Henry James Visits the Priory: A Twice-Told Tale
- Rosemary Ashton
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George Eliot’s Precarious Afterlives
- Fionnuala Dillane
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Art and Form
Temporality and Statuesque Women in George Eliot
- Gail Marshall
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George Eliot and Van Gogh: Radiant Realism
- Ruth Livesey
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From ‘the great Handel chorus’ to ‘wild passion and fancy’: Listening to Handel and Purcell in The Mill on the Floss
- Delia da Sousa Correa
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‘Late’ Eliot
‘An inordinate number of words’: Epigraphs in Daniel Deronda
- Eirian Yem
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Hospitality in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda
- Josephine McDonagh
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George Eliot, Hegel, and Middlemarch
- Isobel Armstrong
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Artificial Intelligence: George Eliot, Ernst Kapp, and the Projections of Character
- Helen Small
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