- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press (8 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0791458334
- ISBN-13: 978-0791458334
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,177,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda dissected
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This book is best enjoyed when contemporaneously reading Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) and Daniel Deronda (Oxford World's Classics), or at least having copies near at hand. Bernard Paris' main theme is that Eliot's masterful rendering of realistic characters subverts her rhetoric about how one should live.
Eliot called her novels "Experiments in Life." The results of these experiments, according to her rhetoric, is a secular morality based on living for others. Paris illustrates in detail how her experiments actually show something quite different, often by demonstrating the pitfalls of selflessness. He builds on the approach used in his A Psychological Approach to Fiction: Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad. While the latter book explicitly uses the ideas and vocabulary of Karen Horney (Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis), in Rereading George Eliot the influence of Horney is more subdued, as if Paris has so much internalized the Horneyan approach that he no longer needs to educate the reader in its details.
The "Rereading" of the title is significant. Paris had been thoroughly converted to Eliot's philosophy of life as a student. His first book, Experiments in life;: George Eliot's quest for values was written from the perspective of one who agreed with Eliot's interpretations of her "experiments." Much of the current book is a reaction, from a few decades later, to the first book (which I have not yet read). Few critics have the courage to share as much of themselves as Paris does in this book.
Eliot called her novels "Experiments in Life." The results of these experiments, according to her rhetoric, is a secular morality based on living for others. Paris illustrates in detail how her experiments actually show something quite different, often by demonstrating the pitfalls of selflessness. He builds on the approach used in his A Psychological Approach to Fiction: Studies in Thackeray, Stendhal, George Eliot, Dostoevsky, and Conrad. While the latter book explicitly uses the ideas and vocabulary of Karen Horney (Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis), in Rereading George Eliot the influence of Horney is more subdued, as if Paris has so much internalized the Horneyan approach that he no longer needs to educate the reader in its details.
The "Rereading" of the title is significant. Paris had been thoroughly converted to Eliot's philosophy of life as a student. His first book, Experiments in life;: George Eliot's quest for values was written from the perspective of one who agreed with Eliot's interpretations of her "experiments." Much of the current book is a reaction, from a few decades later, to the first book (which I have not yet read). Few critics have the courage to share as much of themselves as Paris does in this book.
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