Roots in Fiction and Philology: George Eliot, Ernest Renan, and Willed Ethnonationalism.

Scholarship on George Eliot's 1860s Condition-of-England novel Felix Holt has been divided on whether it signals the racist nativism of its decade or advocates for inclusive, willed national belonging. This paper proposes that it accomplishes both, promoting what I call "willed ethnonationalism." A...

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Published in:Victorian Studies Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 594 - 618
Main Author: Talbott, Tyler
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press Summer2023
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