Postcolonial George Eliot

Oliver Lovesey is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada. He has authored a number of monographs on George Eliot and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and edited Victorian Social Activists’ Novels, The Mill on the Floss, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ, and a Popular Music and Society special issue: 'Popular Music and the Postcolonial'.

• 1. Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial.- 2. Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede).- 3. George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt's Colonial Subject.- 4. Middlemarch's Colonial Imaginary.- 5. Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library.- Works Cited.