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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



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

Eliots Angels

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      Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
      Published 15 June 2022
      ISBN-13 9780268202644
      978-0268202644
      ISBN-10 0268202648

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      “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



      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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