1st Edition

George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic Compelling Contradictions

By Constance Fulmer Copyright 2019
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

George Eliot’s serious readers have been intrigued by the fact that she declared that she had lost her faith in God and had renounced her hope for a traditional Christian heaven and yet she continued to preach her own version of morality in everything she wrote, to hope for an immortality which allowed her to join an invisible choir which would influence generations to come, and to be concerned... Read more
 

Introduction: Definition of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic



Chapter One: Development of George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic



Chapter Two: The Word Made Flesh



Chapter Three: Self-Concept, Music, and Art



Chapter Four: Paradigms of Moral Atrophy and Growth



Chapter Five: Chosen by Hereditary Forces to be Other



Chapter Six: Contrasting Pairs, Mirrors, and Windows



Chapter Seven: Family Relationships and Jewelry



Chapter Eight: Collectors and Collections of Clerics



Chapter Nine: Political Reformers



Chapter Ten: Scenes Involving Animals



Chapter Eleven: Sacramental Scenes



Chapter Twelve: Wills and Inheritance



Chapter Thirteen: Forgiveness and the Law of LoveAppendix Excerpts: "Historic Guidance" and "Notes on The Spanish Gypsy"

Biography

Constance M. Fulmer is Professor of Victorian Literature and holds the Blanche E. Seaver Chair in English Literature at Seaver College, Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is working on a biography of Edith J. Simcox, and with Margaret E. Barfield, edited A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot: Edith J. Simcox’s Autobiography of a Shirtmaker (Garland, 1998). She has also published several articles on George Eliot and on Edith Simcox and an annotated bibliography of George Eliot criticism (G.K. Hall, 1977). She serves on the board of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States and is active in the British Women Writers Association. Her Ph.D. is from Vanderbilt University. She has been at Pepperdine since 1990 and served as Associate Dean of Seaver College from 2007 to 2016 and for eight years as Divisional Dean.