Eliot's Angels: George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire

Author:   Bernadette Waterman Ward
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
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Pages:   420
Publication Date:   15 June 2022
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Author:   Bernadette Waterman Ward
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint:   University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9780268202644


ISBN 10:   0268202648
Pages:   420
Publication Date:   15 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Mimesis and George Eliot's Fiction 3. Mimetic Anthropology: Eliot's Early Years  4. The Intellectual Development of Mary Ann Evans 5. George Eliot's Clerical Life 6. The Magic of Sympathy in Adam Bede 7. Hell in Other People: Mimesis and The Lifted Veil 8. Death and the River: The Mill on the Floss 9. The Interruptions: Brother Jacob and Silas Marner 10. Romola, Full-Fledged Mimetic Angel  11. Foiled Tragedy and Felix Holt 12. Myth and the Artist: The Spanish Gypsy, The Legend of Jubal, and Armgart 13. The Apocalyptic Angel of Middlemarch 14. Satanic Masquerade: Daniel Deronda 15. Mimesis in Theophrastus Such Afterword Works Cited

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“Bernadette Waterman Ward confirms the promise of René Girard’s Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, that what came to be called mimetic theory had real explanatory power well beyond the authors Girard himself discussed.” —William A. Johnsen, author of Violence and Modernism


Bernadette Waterman Ward confirms the promise of Rene Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, that what came to be called mimetic theory had real explanatory power well beyond the authors Girard himself discussed. -William A. Johnsen, author of Violence and Modernism


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Bernadette Waterman Ward is associate professor of English at the University of Dallas. She is the author of World as Word: Philosophical Theology in Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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