Eliot's Angels: George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire

by Bernadette Waterman Ward

Ren? Girard's mimetic theory opens up ways to make sense of the tension between the progressive politics of George Eliot and the conservative moralism of her narratives.

In this innovative study, Bernadette Waterman Ward offers an original rereading of George Eliot's work through the lens of Ren? Girard's theories of mimetic desire, violence, and the sacred. It is a fruitful mapping of a twentieth-century theorist onto a nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268202648
• ISBN13: 9780268202644
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"