A01=John Rignall
Author_John Rignall
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comparative literary studies
cross-cultural literary analysis
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Daniel Deronda
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Deronda's Mother
Deronda’s Mother
Du Bois
Effi Briest
eliots
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European travel narratives
fiction
Final Kiss
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French and German culture
George Sand
Gwendolen Harleth
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Jewish diaspora fiction
La Peau De Chagrin
Le Clerc
Lewes's Journal
Lewes’s Journal
Lifted Veil
Madame Bovary
Matthew Arnold
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modernity in fiction
Mr Gilfil's Love Story
Mr Gilfil’s Love Story
Mrs Transome
nineteenth-century literature
Nutzen Und Nachteil Der Historie
Romeo Und Julia Auf Dem
Rue De La Paix
Ruskin's Modern Painters
Ruskin’s Modern Painters
Saint Theresas
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silas
Superb
Und Julia Auf Dem Dorfe
Vom Nutzen Und Nachteil Der
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409422341
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Reading George Eliot as a European novelist among other European novelists, John Rignall explores her use of European travel, scenes and locations in her fiction and also places her novels in conversation with the work of other major European writers. Throughout the book, Rignall shows Eliot's engagement with the cultures of France and Germany, suggestively making the case that Eliot's novels belong to the tradition of the European novel that descends from Cervantes. Rignall develops the fundamental theme of Eliot's position as a European novelist in chapters that explore the significance of Eliot's first visit to Germany with G. H. Lewes, Eliot's ideas on the cultural differences between French and German writing, the incidental part travel plays in novels such as Daniel Deronda and Middlemarch, the role of European landscapes in her fiction, the dialogical relationship between Eliot and Balzac, comparisons between Middlemarch and Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and connections between the novels of Eliot, Gottfried Keller and Theodor Fontane. Daniel Deronda is examined both within the wider context of European Jewish life and as part of a tradition of French novels that harkens back to Balzac and anticipates Proust. Rignall's final chapter takes up Nietzsche's notorious criticism of Eliot in Twilight of the Idols, showing that Eliot, with her sceptical intelligence, insight into the essentially metaphorical nature of language, and grasp of modernity, has something in common with this philosophical iconoclast.
John Rignall is Emeritus Reader at the University of Warwick and the editor of George Eliot and Europe (1997) and the Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot (2000).
