Kunyu Tan
Thesis title: Economics and Ethics: Reconciling Self and Other in George Eliot’s Writings
Year of study: 3
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: s1921188@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Qualifications
University College London: Masters of Arts in Comparative Literature
Undergraduate teaching
Tutor for Literary Studies 2A
Research summary
My thesis explores the relationship between self and other in George Eliot's novels by putting the literary texts in dialogue with economic and social texts.
Current research interests
My research interests include nineteenth-century fiction, intellectual history, literature and philosophy and economic literary criticism.Knowledge exchange
Tan, Kunyu. "The Conflict Between Originality and Conventionality: The Liberated Individual in The Mill on the Floss and J. S. Mill's On Liberty." George Eliot Review, no. 54, 2023, pp. 71-83. George Eliot Review Online, https://GeorgeEliotReview.org.
Tan, Kunyu. "The Best Self and the Ordinary Self: The Free Play of Consciousness in Felix Holt, the Radical and Culture and Anarchy." George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies (upcoming).
Affiliated research centres
- George Eliot Fellowship
Conference details
2023.9 BAVS 2023 Conference
Organiser
The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)
Papers delivered
Social Organicism: An Interdependent and Heterogeneous Community in Silas Marner