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Strangers in the House Strangers in the House
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A Novel of Strangers A Novel of Strangers
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The Novel and the Law The Novel and the Law
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A New Law for Strangers: Fiction after All? A New Law for Strangers: Fiction after All?
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Who's the Stranger? Jews, Women, and Bastards in Daniel Deronda
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Published:July 2010
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Abstract
This chapter examines George Eliot's 1876 novel Daniel Deronda and the strangers in it—Jews, women, bastards, disenfranchised aliens in England—who are not only outside the law's full dispensation of rights but also estranged by their own consciousness. It argues that the estrangement felt by the novel's heroine, Gwendolen Harleth, from herself and her community represents the first step in working toward a future of full rights and privileges for women. It also restores to Daniel Deronda the debate in nineteenth-century Britain over the emancipation of the Jews. The chapter traces a biblical language of strangeness within English law and discusses legal language and forms in Eliot's fiction as well as the way in which Jews, women, and bastards travel between these very different (but somehow metaphorically linked) legal “dispensations.” The chapter concludes by suggesting that her experiments in fictional form, rather than in any explicit echoes of social or political debate, make it possible for Eliot to address the questions of law, persons, and justice.
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