George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country

This study of Eliot as a psychological novelist examines her writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing. Michael Davis aligns Eliots work with the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, showing how Eliot manipulated scientific language and pointin