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Book SynopsisTrade 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 Contents1. 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
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