George Eliot and Europe

Herausgeber: Rignall, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is based on a conference held in Warwick in July 1995. It is a collection of essays which explore various aspects of George Eliot's relation to the literature and culture of Continental Europe. The essays range widely over the novelist's life and work, examining her Journals and Impressions of Theophratus Such as well as her novels, and focusing on different countries and cultures, including not only France, Germany and Italy, but also Holland and Spain. Some essays examine the complex general issues of language and culture raised in her work, while others concentrate on her response to specific European writers and texts. There are investigations of intertextualities and possibilities of influence, as well as contextual discussions and comparative readings of her novels alongside works by European writers. The overall effect is to illuminate her writing by setting it in the wider European context which, with her knowledge of languages, her travels and her extraordinary wide reading, she knew so well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780367888237
• ISBN-10: 0367888238
• Artikelnr.: 58438899

Autorenporträt

John M Rignall is Emiritus Reader at Human Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; What George Eliot saw in Europe: the evidence of her journals
Margaret Harris; Cultural synthesis in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Hans Ulrich Seeber; George Eliot and the world as language
Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth; George Eliot
George Henry Lewes
and comparative anatomy
Nancy Henry; The miserable marriages in Middlemarch
Anna Karenina
and Effi Briest
Barbara Hardy; Mr Dagley's midnight darkness: uncovering the German connection in George Eliot's fiction
Nancy Cervetti; George Eliot and the Germanic 'musical magnus'
Delia da Sousa Correa; Daniel Deronda and allegories of empire
Derek Miller; 'The interest of Spanish sights': from Ronda to Daniel Deronda
Bonnie McMullen; 'Animated nature': The Mill on the Floss
Beryl Gray; From reality to fiction: benefits and hazards in continental education
Linda K Robertson; Renaissance and risorgimento in Romola
Tom Winnifrith; Greek scholarship and renaissance Florence in George Eliot's Romola
Lesley Gordon; 'Too intensely French for my taste': Victor Hugo as read by George Eliot and George Henry Lewes
Shoshana Milgram Knapp; George Eliot
Balzac and Proust
John Rignall; Playing with shawls: George Eliot's use of Corinne in The Mill on the Floss
Gill Frith; Index.