Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: George Eliot and the Victorian Postcolonial; Victorian Postcolonialism and the Postcolonial Imaginary; George Eliot and Victorian Subalterns; Cosmopolitan George Eliot; Decolonizing Periodization; Chapter 2 Decolonizing Victorian Anthropology (Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede); Anthropology and the Postcolonial; Victorian Anthropology and Novelistic Discourse; Scenes of Clerical Life; Henry Martyn; Adam Bede; Chapter 3 George Eliot and Victorian Islamophobia (Felix Holt 's Colonial Subject); The Journey to the East

George Eliot and Islam in ContextHow Many Wives Had Harold Transome?; Felix Holt's Colonial Subject; Chapter 4 Middlemarch's Colonial Imaginary; Middlemarch's Colonial Contexts; Oriental and Colonial Imagining in Middlemarch; Chapter 5 Conclusion: The Leavis Tradition, Educational Assessment, and the Postcolonial Library; The Leavis Tradition; Educational Assessment: Examining the World; Eliot and the Postcolonial Library: Conclusion; Works Cited; Index