George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento - Rilegato

Thompson, Andrew; Thompson, George

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ISBN 10: 0312176511 ISBN 13: 9780312176518

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

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

L'autore:

ANDREW THOMPSON

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312176511
• ISBN 13: 9780312176518
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243