1st Edition
The Myth of George Eliot How Marian Evans Invented the Victorian Novelist
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Monstrous Author Disembodied
Part I: Myth and Common Sense
Chapter 1 Writing and Translating
Chapter 2 Vanishing
Chapter 3 Surfacing
Part II: Demythologising – Remythologising
Chapter 4 Knights
Chapter 5 Damsels
Chapter 6 Ordinary Sinners
Chapter 7 Parrhesia
Conclusion: Truckling to the Smile of the World
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alessandra Grego is Associate Professor of English Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She has published "The Spectacle of Monstrosity in the Ballad of the Sad Cafè." Carson McCullers Centenary Collection, ed. by Carlos Dews and Sue B. Walker. 2022. "George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas," in Myths of Europe, ed. by Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 123– 132. "The Dual Form of Daniel Deronda," Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, vol. 10 (2000): 93–113. With Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, translation of Orlando, Francesco. Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, Yale University Press, 2006.
