Acknowledgments
Dedication
Introduction – Communion and Difference in the Ethical Relationship
Chapter One – The Defective Mirror: The Ethics of Realism in Adam Bede and "The Natural History of German Life"
Chapter Two – The Pier Glass Effect: Narrative Ethics in Middlemarch
Chapter Three – Egoism and Empathy in Middlemarch
Chapter Four – "The Balance of Separateness and Communication": Cosmopolitan Ethics in Daniel Deronda
Chapter Five – The Concept of Separateness in "The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!"
Chapter Six – Moral and Multilingualism in Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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Biography
Thomas Albrecht is an Associate Professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches nineteenth-century British and European literature, Comparative Literature, and literary theory and criticism. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (2009) and of several journal and book chapter articles on George Eliot’s ethics, as well as the editor of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman (2007).
