George Eliot
Immanent Victorian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colleen Gallagher (0000-0003-0189-3587, corresponding author), Catherine Gallagher (0009-0003-7865-9024) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-74 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2005.90.1.61 |
| OpenAlex | W1998844779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
Using Middlemarch as its primary instance, this essay argues that George Eliot's realism (and by extension nineteenth-century British realism generally) contains a tension between reference (to types of extradiegetic persons) and realization (which is aligned with the fictionality of novelistic characters). The dynamic of Eliot's novels involves the constant deviation of characters away fromtypes and toward fictional particularity, and it thereforematches a more general turn in British culture away froma desire for salvation conceived of as spiritual or ideational transcendence and toward a longing to attain a state of immanent existence that escapes the requirements of "meaning
Art · Art history · British literature · English literature · Epistemology · Literature · Realism · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy
Seeming Human
Armadale and the Logic of Liberalism
Phantoms and Fictional Persons
Realism's Irish Forms
Reading the Mind
The Cambridge history of French literature
French poetry, 1793–1863
The eighteenth-century conte
Eighteenth-century margins
Expectation and “fellow-feeling” in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
Why Always That Dorothea? Realism and the Rise of Meaning
Typicality in the Novel and Novel Theory
Realism
Particular Webs
These Newcomes
Thinking of Me Thinking of You
George Eliot's Vagueness
Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique
Standardization (Standardisation)
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |