{"title":"Touch, Consciousness, and Sympathy in Silas Marner","authors":"Hannah Fogarty","doi":"10.1353/sel.2019.0038","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Conscious objects, independent body parts, and ambiguously located feelings recur throughout George Eliot’s Silas Marner. Exploring what it might be like for a body to think, act, and feel of its own accord, George Eliot draws on George Henry Lewes’s theory of double-aspect monism to envision sensation and habit as vehicles for expansion and transformation beyond the boundaries of the body. George Eliot’s exploration of the value of the habitual and mechanical points to her investment in exploring embodied forms of experience and connection rather than interpersonal sympathy.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2019.0038","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Conscious objects, independent body parts, and ambiguously located feelings recur throughout George Eliot’s Silas Marner. Exploring what it might be like for a body to think, act, and feel of its own accord, George Eliot draws on George Henry Lewes’s theory of double-aspect monism to envision sensation and habit as vehicles for expansion and transformation beyond the boundaries of the body. George Eliot’s exploration of the value of the habitual and mechanical points to her investment in exploring embodied forms of experience and connection rather than interpersonal sympathy.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.