An Analysis of the Gypsy Figures and the Cultural Rebellion in George Eliot’s Works

LI Tao

Jun. 2021

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LI Tao. An Analysis of the Gypsy Figures and the Cultural Rebellion in George Eliot’s Works[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(2): 48-53.

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LI Tao. An Analysis of the Gypsy Figures and the Cultural Rebellion in George Eliot’s Works[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2018, 34(2): 48-53.

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An Analysis of the Gypsy Figures and the Cultural Rebellion in George Eliot’s Works

LI Tao

School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

Received Date: 2018-01-18
Available Online: 2021-06-01
Publish Date: 2021-06-01

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George Eliot has created a bunch of distinctive Gypsy figures through whom the strong sense of cultural subversion of her works has been manifested. Apart from the vivid description of the mysterious Gypsy customs, Eliot’s literary works have also showed counterview to the mainstream society’s demonizing of Gypsy culture, meanwhile, revealing the social causes of the predicament of the gypsies in the nineteenth century. The gypsies are the carrier of the subversive thoughts in Eliot’s works, and the existence of the gypsies becomes the challenge against western unjust social norms. In addition, moral idealism has been evinced in the characterization of Gypsy figures in Eliot’s works, reflecting the writer’s strong rebellious consciousness in her view of race. The Gypsy figures in Eliot’s works act as a defiance to the Victorian social values, destroying the cultural hegemony internally.
- George Eliot,
- Gypsy,
- race

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