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Centers on the discourse of the liberal intellectual as exempli?ed in the novels of George Eliot, whose awareness of her aesthetic and social task was keener than that of most Victorian writers.

“…Daniel Cottom has produced a readable, well-researched, and thoroughly referenced work that speaks to a broad scholarly audience composed of philosophers, psychologists, sociolinguists, literary critics, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, to name but a few.” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, About the Series, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. Foreword
  2. Terry Eagleton
  3. pp. viii-xvii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xviii-xxiv
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xxv-xxvi
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  1. 1. "George Eliot" and the Fables of the Liberal Intellectual
  2. pp. 3-32
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  1. 2. Education and the Transfigurations of Realism
  2. pp. 33-58
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  1. 3. Literary Consciousness and the Vacancy of the Individual
  2. pp. 59-82
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  1. 4. Genteel Image and Democratic Example
  2. pp. 83-102
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  1. 5. Imperfection and Compensation
  2. pp. 103-124
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  1. 6. Realism and Romance
  2. pp. 125-140
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  1. 7. The Supervision of Art and the Culture of the Sickroom
  2. pp. 141-160
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  1. 8. Private Fragments and Public Monuments
  2. pp. 161-182
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  1. 9. Domesticity and Teratology
  2. pp. 183-200
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  1. Conclusion: Reproduction/Quotation/Criticism
  2. pp. 201-220
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 221-236
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 237-241
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  1. Other Works in the Series, About the Author
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