Eliot's Angels: George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire

by Bernadette Waterman Ward

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Ren? Girard's mimetic theory opens up ways to make sense of the tension between the progressive politics of George Eliot and the conservative moralism of her narratives.

In this innovative study, Bernadette Waterman Ward offers an original rereading of George Eliot's work through the lens of Ren? Girard's theories of mimetic desire, violence, and the sacred. It is a fruitful mapping of a twentieth-century theorist onto a nineteenth-century...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0268202648

ISBN13:9780268202644

Release Date:June 2022

Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press

Length:420 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Religion Religion & Spirituality

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