Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Dedication

Introduction – Communion and Difference in the Ethical Relationship

Chapter One – The Defective Mirror: The Ethics of Realism in Adam Bede and "The Natural History of German Life"

Chapter Two – The Pier Glass Effect: Narrative Ethics in Middlemarch

Chapter Three – Egoism and Empathy in Middlemarch

Chapter Four – "The Balance of Separateness and Communication": Cosmopolitan Ethics in Daniel Deronda

Chapter Five – The Concept of Separateness in "The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!"

Chapter Six – Moral and Multilingualism in Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Bibliography

About the Author

Thomas Albrecht is an Associate Professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches nineteenth-century British and European literature, Comparative Literature, and literary theory and criticism. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (2009) and of several journal and book chapter articles on George Eliot’s ethics, as well as the editor of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman (2007).