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George Eliot is best known for Middlemarch, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction

The Conversation · · 1578 words · By Jessica Murray

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“George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel Deronda (1876).”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880) George Eliot may also refer to: George Eliot (spy) (before 1555—after 1581), English confidence man, also known as George…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sara Sophia Hennell (23 November 1812 – 7 March 1899) was a British author. She was a close associate of George Eliot, Charles Christian Hennell and Caroline and Charles Bray.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leadi…
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“Eliot published a short science-fiction novel titled The Lifted Veil in 1859.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leadi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lifted Veil may refer to: "The Lifted Veil" (novella), an 1859 novella by George Eliot The Lifted Veil (film), a 1917 American silent film directed by George D. Baker
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. It was republished in 1879. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known…
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“Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is often credited as the first 'science fiction' novel, but in the mid-1800s the term was rare.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient cre…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 science-fiction gothic horror film directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars as Victor Frankenstein, with Robert De Niro portraying Frankenstein's monster (call…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Victor Frankenstein, whose character name has sometimes evolved in popular culture to Dr. Frankenstein, is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley's 18…
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“The Lifted Veil is science fiction in both senses.”
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“The Lifted Veil is a first-person account of the life of a man named Latimer who is writing his story because he knows he is soon to die.”
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“Latimer’s extrasensory abilities are not imagined as scientific advances.”
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“Latimer is forced into a scientific education to remedy his deficiencies.”
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“Eliot’s realism was based on the idea of sympathy, influenced by German philosophy and her critical view of Christianity.”
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“Eliot’s realist novels depicted the inner lives of characters and criticized Charles Dickens for 'frequently false psychology'.”
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“In Middlemarch, characters misread each other, and the narrator describes the difficulty of understanding others' minds.”
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“Lydgate in Middlemarch conflates Rosamond’s exterior beauty with her inner life, leading to a failed marriage.”
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“Eliot read extensively in history, theology, classics, poetry, novels, philosophy, geology, physiology, physics, and evolutionary theory.”
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“George Henry Lewes, Eliot’s partner, influenced physiological psychology and introduced variations of 'stream of consciousness'.”
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“A 1872 Spectator review criticized Middlemarch for excessive scientific and physiological knowledge.”
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“Daniel Deronda explicitly connects speculative literature to scientific hypothesizing.”
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“The Lifted Veil describes Latimer’s ability to access others’ minds and foresee the future.”
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“Latimer’s abilities lead to emotional distress as he perceives the flaws in others’ characters.”
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“The Lifted Veil envisions the possibility of fully accessing the minds of others.”
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