George Eliot and Italy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1997
First published:	1998
Authors:	A. Thompson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	243
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-69456-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-333-69456-2
Barcode:	9780333694565

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