George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century

K. M. Newton is Professor Emeritus at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. He is the author of Modernizing George Eliot (2011), Modern Literature and the Tragic (2008), and coauthor of George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism (Palgrave, 2002) and numerous other books.

• 1. Introduction: A Brief Reflection on George Eliot, Past, Present and Future.- 2. The 'Radical' Mindset George Eliot.- 3. Critical Encounters: Hardy, Bonaparte, Miller.- 4. Eliot and the Reinterpretation of the Ethical.- 5. Eliot and the Psychological Novel.- 6.The Mill on the Floss and the Revision of Tragedy.- 7. Daniel Deronda and the Novel of the Future.- 8. Eliot and the Politics of Modernism.