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George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism.(Book Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20041001
Author:McArthur, Tonya Moutray

George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism. By SALEEL NURBHAI and K. M. NEWTON. Basings In the introduction toke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi+ 220 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-96381-4.

Much recent criticism on George Eliot's fiction has been interested in Eliot's representation of race within the context of the complicated Victorian response to the projects of empire and ethnography, as well as to the influx of various immigrant communities that contributed to Britain's increasing racial diversity during the nineteenth century. Saleel ...

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