George Eliot and the production of consumers
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George Eliot was often quoted in anthologies, calendars and even schoolbooks, particularly by Alexander Main. The structure of Eliot's narratives, which were characterized by epigraphs and self-contained digressions, inspired her readers' fondness for quoting her. These anthologies have redefined the genre of Eliot's work since, although they worked at marketing her to women, they also served to group her with her male predecessors. Despite publicly questioning the ethics of appropriating others' words, Eliot actually wrote in the expectation of being excerpted.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1997
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The Giaour's campaign: desire and the other in 'Felix Holt, The Radical.'
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George Eliot's 'Felix Holt, The Radical' featured a heavily Byronic, Eastern exoticism or Orientalism and was able to create a dialogue between otherness and desire. Its probe into the concepts of national identity and desire deliberately confused and subverted notions about Englishness and otherness. More specifically, the novel focused not on the English self's connection to a provincial community alone but also the English self's connection to the wider, multicultural world.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1997
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The serialist vanishes: producing belief in George Eliot
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Issues related to the serialized publication of 19th-century English author's George Eliot novel "Middlemarch" are examined. Topics include Chalmersian theology and 19th-century economics; contemporary reviews of the novel; the economic success of its bi-monthly serialization; and the relationship among literature, sociology, and marketing.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 1999
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