In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a -flattering illusion of concentric arrangement-. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot-s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot-s career-from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such-Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot-s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.
