Comparison underlies all reading. Readers compare words to words,
and books to all the other books which they have read. Some books,
however, demand a particular comparative effort - for example,
novels which contain parallel plot lines. In this ambitious and
important study Catherine Brown compares Daniel Deronda with Anna
Karenina and Women in Love in order to answer the following
questions: why does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst
another succeeds? Can their failure and success be understood on
the same terms? How do the novels' uses of comparison compare to
each other? How relevant is George Eliot's influence on Lev
Tolstoi, and Tolstoi's on D. H. Lawrence? Does Tolstoi being a
Russian make this a 'comparative' literary study? And what does the
'comparative' in 'comparative literature' actually mean? Criticism
is combined with metacriticism, to explore how novels and critics
compare. Catherine Brown is a lecturer in English at St. Hilda's
College, Oxford.
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