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George Eliot and Italy

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  • © 1998

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  1. Andrew Thompson

    1. University of Genoa, Italy

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 1-5

  3. Dante, the Risorgimento and the British: the Italian Background

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 6-29

  4. George Eliot’s Contact with Italian Life and Culture 1840–61

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 30-49

  5. Eliot’s Italian Exile in ‘Mr Gilfil’s Love Story’ (Scenes of Clerical Life)

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 50-67

  6. Italian Mythmaking in Romola

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 68-83

  7. Dante in Romola

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 84-97

  8. Dante and Moral Choice in Felix Holt, the Radical

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 98-119

  9. Italian Culture and Influences in Middlemarch

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 120-144

  10. Gwendolen’s ‘Other Road’: Dante in Daniel Deronda

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 145-160

  11. Italian Poetry and Music in Daniel Deronda

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 161-172

  12. Daniel Deronda, Italian Prophecy, Dante and George Eliot

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 173-195

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 196-243
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This study considers George Eliot's novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the Italian national revival and shows how these helped shape her fiction. Thompson argues that Eliot was able to draw selectively on a powerful Risorgimento mythology of national regeneration and that her engagement with the work of Dante Alighieri increases steadily in her later novels, where the Divine Comedy becomes a sustaining metaphor for Eliot's meliorist vision and for her theme of moral growth through suffering.

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'[A] distinctive contribution to the burgeoning literature on nineteenth-century British enthusiasm for all things Italian...sure to be eagerly devoured accordingly.' - Literature & History

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  • University of Genoa, Italy

    Andrew Thompson

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