SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: George Eliot

»Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–1863), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Her novels are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place, and detailed depiction of the countryside. Middlemarch was described by the novelist Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people" and by Martin Amis and Julian Barnes as the greatest novel in the English language.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Daniel Deronda

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Daniel Deronda is a novel by English author George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), first published in eight installments from February to September 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day. The work's mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of proto-Zionist ideas, has made it a final statement from one of the most renowned Victorian novelists.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Daniel Deronda, Marital Rape, and the End of Reproduction.« Victorian Review 43 (2017): 247-269.

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Spectacularly Conceived: Sexual Violence and Burdened Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina, 2017.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Martinez, Andrea. »Marriage, Terror, and Slavery in Daniel Deronda.« 17^th Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association. Columbus 2019.

[Info] Thierauf, Doreen. »Daniel Deronda, Marital Rape, and the End of Reproduction.« Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Asheville 2016.

The Mill on the Floss

I n f o r m a t i o n

»The Mill on the Floss is a novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published, in three volumes, on 4 April 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons. (...)
Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, the novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings who grow up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. The mill is at the confluence of the Floss and the smaller River Ripple, near the village of St Ogg's in Lincolnshire, England. Both the rivers and the village are fictional.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 19^th Century

II. Geographical Index: European History: English History

III. Topical Index: Types General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Draucker, Shannon. Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature. Albany 2024.

II. Speaker Index