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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her fiction, she experiments with contrasting modes of production: we find ideal or dream oikoi as well as the darker realities of exploitation. Eliot is able to imagine how industry, in the widest sense of a collective making or producing of things, might function if based on sympathy and being with the world rather than being surrounded by it and dominating it. This article shows that The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Middlemarch (1871), both set in the late 1820s and early 1830s, bring work and wider activities of production together with an ecological or “with-world thinking” ( Mitweltdenken in ecolinguistics), a concept which has its roots in Montaigne, Spinoza and early environmental theories. ![]()
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