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George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels

Jewish Myth and Mysticism

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  • © 2002

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  1. Saleel Nurbhai
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  2. K. M. Newton
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Jewish Myth, Mysticism and George Eliot’s Fiction

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 1-24

  3. George Eliot and Kabbalism: Historical and Literary Context

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 25-34

  4. Kabbalistic Philosophy and the Novels

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 35-53

  5. From Formless Matter to Matter with Form

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 54-68

  6. The Relationship between Creator and Creature

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 69-90

  7. Ideals of Perfection

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 91-107

  8. Science, Pseudo-Science and Transgression

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 108-133

  9. Investing Form with Essence

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 134-147

  10. Homelessness and Speechlessness

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 148-170

  11. The Messianic Potential

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 171-180

  12. Conclusion: Social Critique, Education, Allegory

    • Saleel Nurbhai, K. M. Newton
    Pages 181-191

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 192-220
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This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda , and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though previous studies have attempted to qualify the still-dominant view that George Eliot is firmly as part of the realistic tradition, this study goes further by demonstrating that a cohesive mythic structure with its basis in Jewish mysticism is identifiable in her fiction. Providing helpful background and factual information about the Golem and other aspects of Kabbalah, this work will appeal to anyone interested in the myth of the Golem, the re-writing of Victorian culture from a Judaic perspective, and George Eliot studies in general.

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'...the authors offer much that is provocative, and students and scholars of Eliot will find their book worth pondering.' - M.E. Burstein, Choice

About the authors

SAKEEN NURBHAI is a Lecturer in English Literature at St Martin's College, Lancaster. He has published several articles on George Eliot as well as prose fiction and poetry.

KENNETH NEWTON is Professor of English at the University of Dundee. He is the author of George Eliot: Romantic Humanist, In Defence of Literary Interpretation, Interpreting the Text, and has edited collections of literary theory.

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