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By Royce Mahawatte

ISBN-10: 0708325769

ISBN-13: 9780708325766

George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the 1st monograph to systematically discover George Eliot’s courting to Gothic genres. It considers the ways that the author’s ethics hyperlink to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the most important works of fiction, this learn compares passages of Eliot’s writing with sequences from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic works. Royce Mahawatte examines Eliot’s deployment of, for instance, the incarcerated heroine in Middlemarch, doppelgangers in Romola and vampiric queerness in Daniel Deronda. In doing so he lifts Eliot from the bounds of social realism and locations her inside of a broader and richer Victorian literary scene than has been formerly considered.

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