George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph to systematically explore George Eliotâs relationship to Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the authorâs ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, this study compares passages of Eliotâs writing with sequences from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic works. Royce Mahawatte examines Eliotâs deployment of, for example, the incarcerated heroine in Middlemarch, doppelgangers in Romola and vampiric queerness in Daniel Deronda. In doing so he lifts Eliot from the boundaries of social realism and places her within a broader and richer Victorian literary scene than has been previously considered.
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Dec 14, 2022
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