The Myth of George Eliot: How Marian Evans Invented the Victorian Novelist

＂The Myth of George Eliot＂ shows how Marian Evans understood the power of collective stories to change society, and suggests that her turn to fiction, after ten years as a professional translator, editor and journalist, was motivated by the desire to participate in an ethical revolution to imagine a broader future for the nation.

Alessandra Grego is associate professor of English Literature at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. She has published ＂The Spectacle of Monstrosity in the Ballad of the Sad Cafè.＂ Carson McCullers Centenary Collection, ed. by Carlos Dews and Sue B. Walker. 2022. ＂George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas,＂ in Myths of Europe, ed. by Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 123-132. ＂The Dual Form of Daniel Deronda,＂ Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, vol. 10 (2000): 93-113. With Gabriel Pihas and Daniel Seidel, translation of Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures, by Francesco Orlando, 2006.