TY - BOOK ID - 146200037 TI - Postcolonial George Eliot PY - 2017 SN - 9781137332110 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Eliot, George, KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146200037 AB - This book examines the range of the colonial imaginary in Eliot's works, from the domestic and regional to ancient and speculative colonialisms. It challenges monolithic, hegemonic views of George Eliot - whose novelistic career paralleled the creation of British India - and also dismissals of the postcolonial as ahistorical. It uncovers often-overlooked colonized figures in the novels. It also investigates Victorian Islamophobia in light of Eliot's impatience with ignorance, intolerance, and xenophobia as well as her interrogation of the make-believe of endings. Drawing on a range of sources from Eugène Bodichon's Algerian anthropological texts, the Persian journals of John Martyn, and postmodern re-engagements, Postcolonial George Eliot has implications for an understanding of the globalization of English, the decolonization of disciplinarity and periodization, and the roots of present-day conflict in the wider Mediterranean world. ER -