The Transferred Life of George Eliot

Philip Davis, University of Liverpool

Philip Davis is the author of The Victorians 1830-1880, volume 8 in the Oxford English Literary History Series, and a companion volume on Why Victorian Literature Still Matters. He has written on Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, the literary uses of memory from Wordsworth to Lawrence, and various books on reading. He is general editor of OUP's new paperback series The Literary Agenda on the role of literature in the world of the 21st century. His previous literary biography was a life of Bernard Malamud. He is editor of The Reader magazine, the written voice of the outreach organisation The Reader.

Introduction
1. Family Likenesses 1819-1842
2. The Valley of Humiliation: The Single Woman 1840-51
3. Three Translations
4. The Two Loves of 1852: 1. Herbert Spencer
5. The Two Loves of 1852: 2. George Henry Lewes
6. 'The first time': Scenes of Clerical Life
7. Adam Bede: Crisis and Force Fields
8. The Mill on the Floss: 'My problems are purely psychical': Psychology and the Levels of Thought
9. 'Great Facts Have Struggled To Find A Voice': the 1860s Middle-Age
10. Middlemarch: Realism and Thoughtworld
11. Daniel Deronda: the Great Transmitter and the Last Experiment