{"product_id":"george-eliot-and-the-discourses-judith-johnston-9782503507736","title":"George Eliot and the Discourses of Medievalism","description":"In George Eliot's last two novels, \u003ci\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/i\u003e (1871-72) and \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e (1876), she abandons the realism she had explored and articulated so carefully, most famously in \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e, 'a faithful account of men and things', for an unprecedented return to 'cloud-borne angels, [...] prophets, sibyls, and heroic warriors'. This study addresses Eliot's exploitation of Victorian medievalism by considering the way in which she utilizes the discourses of medievalism, both for their potential for subversiveness and their potential for mediation, to affirm that change is possible socially, culturally, and politically, in her modern contemporary world. The various medieval discourses are revealed as interstices within what initially appears to be a continuation of the realism of her earlier novels. They permit political and cultural readings of a different, and often unexpected, kind to the realist bourgeois values of novels like \u003ci\u003eAdam Bede\u003c\/i\u003e, and to a lesser extent, \u003ci\u003eFelix Holt\u003c\/i\u003e. These political and cultural readings reveal a more determined, more obvious feminist and socialist polemic in her two last and possibly greatest novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Johnston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 2503507735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782503507736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brepols Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.64h x 6.56w x 0.82d","brand":"Judith Johnston","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46974675681535,"sku":"9782503507736","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95a8d646-51b8-4846-b948-85353bd14a9f.jpg?v=1750875734","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/george-eliot-and-the-discourses-judith-johnston-9782503507736","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}