This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot’s works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot — whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India — 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 Eliot’s impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon’s 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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781349673490
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-349-67349-0
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Erscheinungstermin: 08.06.2023
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2017
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 416 g
- Seiten: 310
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt