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George Eliot’s novels have been the focus of some of the most deeply thought criticism of the Victorian period. In this seminar we’ll read a selection of those novels as they have invited the study of topics which may include the theory of the novel and of narrative; aesthetics and continental philosophy; representation and the nature of individuation; sympathy; the history of affect; formalism, politics, and ethics; the novel and emergent sciences. We’ll spend most of our time on Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, along with her non-fiction prose and some of her translation work of Spinoza and Feuerbach. We’re likely to read criticism by Gallagher, Hertz, Woloch, Plotz, Anderson, and Duncan. Depending on student interest, we may also take up Eliot’s relation to earlier literary figures—Wordsworth being a likely candidate.