Postcolonial George Eliot

This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in EliotÆs works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot ù whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India ù and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of EliotÆs impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eug?ne BodichonÆs Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world.

• | Author: Oliver Lovesey
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 317 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137332115
• | ISBN-13: 9781137332110