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‘The Translator of Strauss’ ‘The Translator of Strauss’
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Feuerbach and Free Love Feuerbach and Free Love
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Spinoza’s Ethics Spinoza’s Ethics
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George Eliot and Translation George Eliot and Translation
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22 George Eliot’s Translations
Get accessClare Carlisle is Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London. She is the author of seven books, including The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life (Penguin/FSG, 2023), and is the editor of Spinoza’s Ethics, Translated by George Eliot (Princeton University Press, 2020).
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Published:20 March 2025
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Abstract
Rather than being read as literary works in their own right, George Eliot’s translations have more often been mined for information about what beliefs she may have held and the possible influence of these ideas on her fiction. Yet a large part of Eliot’s literary career was devoted to translating the works of Strauss, Feuerbach, and Spinoza; to contemplating further translations and including short translations in her articles; to reviewing translations; and to writing about the nature and difficulties of translation. This chapter places Eliot back into the context of nineteenth-century translation practices in order to consider the choices she made as a translator, as well as the formative philosophical apprenticeship undertaken via her translation work. It also explores how that work was embedded in the intimate relationships that shaped her professional and personal life.
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