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Synopsis
McCormack (English, State U. System of Florida) examines Eliot's treatment of alcohol and opium consumption in her short stories and in the novels Middlemarch, Romola, Felix Holt, and Daniel Deronda. She argues that Eliot used alcohol as a both a realist tool identifying actual conditions in society and as a metaphor connecting political, social, gender, psychological, medical, and aesthetic issues.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-229) and index.
About the Author
Kathleen McCormack is Associate Professor of English in the State University System of Florida.
Table of Contents
George Eliot and Victorian Intoxication * Backgrounds and Landscapes * The Early Fiction * Public Houses: Unstable Language in Dangerous Places * Parables of Addiction *
Romola San Buonvino *
Felix Holt 's Muddles Metaphors *
Middlemarch "Profit Out of Poisonous Pickles" *
Daniel Deronda After the Opium Wars
George Eliot and Victorian Intoxication * Backgrounds and Landscapes * The Early Fiction * Public Houses: Unstable Language in Dangerous Places * Parables of Addiction * Romola San Buonvino * Felix Holt 's Muddles Metaphors * Middlemarch "Profit Out of Poisonous Pickles" * Daniel Deronda After the Opium Wars