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How George Eliot’s People Think

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As a Positivisit, George Eliot believed that the mind is the product of a biological evolution analogous to that of the body. She agreed with G. H. Lewes, who wrote: ‘Mind is a successive evolution from experience and its laws are the actions of results. The Forms of Thought are developed just as the Forms of an Organism are developed’. To George Eliot, the mind and its processes are emphatically included in the web of cause and effect that constitutes her determined universe. Her marvellously detailed analyses of thinking reflect this view, for they trace particular states of mind to antecedent psychological factors.

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  1. T. E. Hulme, ‘The Philosophy of Intensive Manifolds’, Speculations, ed. Herbert Read (New York. n.d. [first published 1924]).

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  2. Daniel Deronda, ed. Barbara Hardy, (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967), Ch. 21, pp. 268–9.

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  3. Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (Garden City, 1959), pp. 140–47.

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  4. Middlemarch, ed. Gordon S. Haight, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1956), Ch. 18, pp. 131–9.

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  5. Reprinted in Essays of George Eliot, ed. Thomas Pinney (London: Routledge, 1963), pp. 391–6.

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  6. Karl Kroeber, Styles in Fictional Structure (Princeton, 1971), p. 153–4.

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  7. Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1977), p. 16.

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  1. Jacob Korg
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Yale University, USA

    Gordon S. Haight (Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature) (Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature)

  2. University of Puget Sound, USA

    Rosemary T. Van Arsdel (Professor of English) (Professor of English)

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© 1982 Gordon S. Haight and Rosemary T. VanArsdel

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Korg, J. (1982). How George Eliot’s People Think. In: Haight, G.S., Van Arsdel, R.T. (eds) George Eliot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05969-0_8

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