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    Arboreal Thinking: George Eliot and the Matter of Life in Adam Bede

    In her first novel, Adam Bede, George Eliot’s sense of life is extended beyond the human to evoke ethical questions of the life of matter. Adam Bede reflects Eliot’s interest in scientific vitalism and her deep e...

    Ruth Livesey in Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790–1930 (2019)

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    Money, Manhood and Suffrage in Our Mutual Friend

    Almost precisely half-way through Charles Dickens’s capacious and last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, the mercenary beauty, Bella Wilfer comes to reflect on the power of the substance she has spent her short ...

    Ruth Livesey in Culture, Capital and Representation (2010)