This essay argues that a post-secular moment requires our return to George Eliot to consider anew the relations between religion and secularity. Looking at her early work, in particular “Janet’s Repentance” (1857) and The Mill on the Floss (1860), I…
Journal article that situates Romola in the context of martyrological novels of the mid-Victorian period. I argue that these novels provide a sensory liturgy of torture that enlists readerly devotion primarily through the embodied act of reading. In…
This paper discusses George Henry Lewes's study of living matter in The Physiology of Common Life (1859–60). Despite the physiological materiality of its subject, Lewes's text often discusses states of life that defy clear-cut classification. The…
Analysis of references to Greek and Latin, classical education, myths and motifs in George Eliot's Middlemarch, with special attention to her use of Greek tragedy.