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explanation.Onceagain,Ifindajustificationformychoiceinthe
writingsofGeorgeLevine.Inhisrecentbook,thedistinguished
Victorianscholarappealedforanewopeninginthefieldof
nineteenth-centurystudies,claimingthattherecentacademic
trendtopayattentiontoneglectedminorwritersnecessarily
resultsinadistortedpictureoftheperiod.Levinecalledforth
forarenewalofcriticalinterestincanonicaltexts,arguingthat
thegreatVictoriannovelsshouldbere-evaluatedasHdistinctly
lesscomfortable,quaint,cuteandpredictablethanBBCandfilm
productionshavemademanypeoplethinktheyare”(Levine
2008:vi).Ihopethat,withinthelimitsofmymonograph,Iwill
beabletodopreciselythat:toofferacomprehensivereadingof
GeorgeEliot’scanonicalnovelsfromanewangleandtodraw
attentiontoahithertooverlookedaspectofherart.
